The server had been quiet for three days.
JPZ noticed it the way you notice when a song you've had stuck in your head finally stops — a strange, hollow kind of relief mixed with something that felt uncomfortably close to loss.
He spun in his chair, staring at the ceiling of his room, the blue glow of his monitor still casting shadows across the walls. Somewhere across the country, Colin was probably doing the same thing. Probably. Or maybe not. Maybe Colin was laughing at something Mesh said, he