I decided to download Links Awakening for the Switch a couple weeks ago.

I had had the game as a kid on Game Boy, but I don't remember getting very far.

I think I mostly cut grass in the starting area until I found enough money to buy all the items.

The remake looked cute though, and nowadays I could just look up a guide if I got stuck.

The game downloaded while I crept upstairs and microwaved myself a burrito.

My upstairs roommates were working from home. I was still going out on the front lines every night.

We had settled into a kind of half-ars quarantine system.

I snuck around during the night like some kind of ghost living in their basement and

they didn't try to find me. The microwave clock, after I heated up my food, said it was close to 7

in the morning. I'd finished my shift about an hour ago, came home and known as soon as I

gotten into the shower that I was looking down the barrel at another sleepless night.

I was tense and twitchy, a band of not quite pain pulling my back muscles tight.

The warm water had done little to help, even when I turned it to scolding.

So I pulled my switch out from where it was charging under my bed and blew $60 on a remake of

a game I could have emulated for free.

Now I took my burrito, wrapped in a paper plate, back down to my room.

I pulled the blankets up around me one-handed as I stepped into the bed with my food held high.

I heard a clatter and grimest. I put the Brito down on the corner of the bed and knelt

over the side. Yeah, I'd knocked my switch to the floor. I picked it up and

turned it over. I wanted to say that I barely noticed the crack, but it was unmistakable. A web of cracks around the area of

a house key in the bottom right corner. The screen was still lit up and working just fine though.

I tapped the crack with my thumb and it didn't seem to

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