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The moon is not listening.

The wolf does not howl at the moon. The wolf howls because the moon is the only thing that has never answered. The red vein running from eye to jaw is not injury. It is frustration made visible, the physical trace of a sound that has been trying to leave the throat for centuries and keeps failing.

The saliva does not fall. It hangs. Gravity works differently for creatures that have given up on being heard. The stars are not distant. They are absent, placeholders for lights that left when they realized nothing here was worth illuminating. The crescent moon is not a phase. It is a closed eye, the only kind of eye that can watch without being expected to respond.

The wolf is black not because of pigment. Black is what color becomes when it stops trying to be seen. The white edges are not highlights. They are scars, places where the darkness wore through and something older showed underneath. The howl has no sound because the image is silent. The silence is not empty. It is the howl, inverted, waiting for a listener who will not come.

The red glows on OLED. The black erases the bezel. The wolf does not end at the screen edge.