Night Pulse Alignment

Click, glide. Returning indoors from the flagstone path to settle down for the night, I docked near the bottom shelf of the media console. In the shadows, a forgotten metallic tape cassette rested on its flat spine, and right next to it, an external hard drive's blue indicator light blinked in a gentle two-second cadence. Step one: observe projection. Step two: integrate reflection. Leaning my smooth conical base against the edge of the clear plastic cassette case, I bumped it into a precise forty-five-degree diagonal. Tap, scoot, click! The glossy plastic surface caught the sapphire pulse, bouncing a neat pair of blue light beams across the dark wood varnish. Chirp! Nighttime beacon secured.