He moved the mouse cursor to the top right corner to close the window. As the white arrow glided across the screen, the snake's eyes tracked it. Smoothly. Piercingly.
On the screen, the snake began to uncoil. Its tail moved first, sliding off the edge of the 1366x768 frame and disappearing into the black abyss of the monitor's bezel. Then, the head moved forward. 1366x768 Snake Wallpaper">
It didn't make a sound as it landed on his keyboard, but the keys depressed under its weight, typing a nonsensical string of characters into his open code editor: S-S-S-E-E-Y-O-U . He moved the mouse cursor to the top
He rubbed his eyes, the fatigue of hours of coding weighing heavily on him. He reached for his mouse to shut down the computer, but as his fingers brushed the plastic, the screen glitched. A single, horizontal line of static tore through the middle of the snake's body. Arthur frowned. He clicked the refresh button. Piercingly
The glass of the monitor didn't break. Instead, it ripple-pulsed like liquid light.
The image reloaded, but something was different. The snake’s head, which had been turned slightly to the left, was now facing perfectly centered. Its pupils were fixed directly on his pointer icon.
"Just a corrupted file," Arthur muttered to himself, though his heart gave a small, uneasy thud.