“She passed weeks in bed, hours and hours, just playing the jewel game on her phone. The game was easy and beautiful, and she felt she was very good at it. Every time she played, she would think, After this game, you will put down your phone and do something else, but she never put down her phone, and she never did something else. She continued to play the jewel game. She thought, It's okay, don't worry, you won't play the jewel game forever. But what if she did play the jewel game forever?

She thought about her entire life as she arranged jewels upon jewels. She thought about her life very slowly. She felt her brain get slow, clear, and focused. Organizing the nervous part of her brain, an urgent sensation of having disappeared.”