Except the sprite was holding a chisel. And it was carving new tiles into the floor—tiles Leo had never designed.

Leo stared at the blinking cursor on his laptop, the weight of a hundred unfinished RPG Maker projects pressing down on his shoulders. The "Mapping Generator" tab in JoiPlay was open, but he’d always dismissed it as a crutch for amateurs. Tonight, though, his creativity was a dry well.

He deleted the map entirely.

The black square had moved.