One by one, the lights flickered into life. Olya stood speechless as they danced into shapes she didn’t have names for.

“It’s beautiful,” she breathed, awestruck.

It would be quite some time before she’d learn what the lights actually were, and a good while longer before she’d finally stop crying.

When he’s not struggling with University Stuff, Alex Aloneftis fights fire-breathing glitches and vile errors with his mighty sword, “The Debugger™”. In his spare time, he also writes exceedingly stuffy opinion pieces on gaming at k-code.blogspot.com.