is open again. The waveform is moving. It’s playing back .
You turn around.
The tile is back. Pinned to the top. .
The little red light next to the microphone blinks on.
You pull out the luminescent rectangle—Nokia Lumia 1020, yellow backplate, a crack spiderwebbing the top left corner. The tile interface glows with soft, blocky colors. And there it is, pinned to the top of the Start screen: . The Sound Recorder -Windows Phone-
The icon is a vintage microphone, silver and black, like something from a 1940s radio station. You tap it.
You are Sam. You are sitting in your room. You are very much home. is open again
You throw the phone into your backpack. You don’t take it out for the rest of the day. You don’t take it out that night. Or the next morning.