As the progress bar crept forward, the air in the room felt different. Stagnant. He unzipped the folder and found thirty-two JPEGs. He opened the first one. It was the girl from the thumbnail, laughing as she held a stray cat. The metadata said the photo was taken yesterday.
“I’m tired of waiting in the cloud, Arjun. Let me in.”
The file was a .zip titled Priya_Home_Photos . It was small, only 40 megabytes. He hit download.