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He reached for his mouse, but the cursor was gone. In its place was a single, black vector point. An anchor. He tried to move it, but the anchor stayed still, and the world around him began to shift. The walls of his apartment stretched, lines of perspective warping and snapping to a grid that hadn't been there a moment ago. Adobe-Illustrator-2021-25.4.1.dmg
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