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The silence of the room was heavy. He sat there for a long time, the glow of the monitor illuminating his tired face.

Hours bled into the night. The coffee shop closed; Elias packed his laptop, the thumb drive heavy in his pocket. He walked home in the rain, the streetlights reflecting off the wet pavement, looking for all the world like the vector gradients he was rendering.

: A free web-based and desktop vector graphics software that is easy to use for basic design tasks.