Each wallpaper fit the screen of any device: iPhone or Android, tall or wide, because he always saved versions that would hold up at 2560 pixels high. He took pride in the technical care, but what mattered more was the small, private narrative each image sparked. The skylines were never the same city twice; his mind supplied names for streets he’d never walked. A lone umbrella in a crowd might belong to someone who’d just left an argument and decided, instead, to wander until the rain ended. A pair of shoes left by the stairwell was always proof, to Rory, that someone had returned and that nothing truly vanished.