The glow of the laptop screen was the only light in Mira’s cramped studio apartment. It was 2:00 AM, and the deadline for her thesis chapter was in six hours. But Mira wasn't writing. Her fingers, trembling with a mix of exhaustion and compulsion, danced across the keyboard.
She clicked.
And in the middle of her screen, a new, small comic panel had appeared. Hand-drawn. Ink on rough paper. It showed a girl who looked exactly like Mira, sitting in a dark room. Behind her, a single, silvery string stretched from her heart and disappeared into the ceiling. And at the end of the string, a pair of scissors was slowly, patiently, closing.