The pen bothered me. It was fat and filled with ink cartridges, from black to the colors of the rainbow.
“Where’d you get this again?” I asked him.
The strange animal character on the screen jumped over a crumpled brick wall with an appropriate boing sound. “I found it,” he answered.
“Where?”
Now just a tiny dot hopping around some far corner of his pixelated meadow, he shouted back, "In the library."
“Okay," I said, but I still didn't remember. And I had no idea how to bring any of it back again.

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