The soft click of the mouse, that familiar thunk against the desk, and the spreadsheet cell updated, not with the value I'd anticipated, but a completely different outcome, a quiet little data point that just… unravelled something. It wasn't the old clench, no familiar tightening, just a slight buzz connecting somewhere in my prefrontal cortex, a recognition of another unseen junction, another one of my elaborate Rube Goldberg systems quietly dissolving. The simplicity of it, really, after all that complex construction, just a gentle re-arrangement.