Arthur was a debugger in a world that rarely admitted it had bugs. He lived his life with his hand perpetually extended, his index finger stiff and ready— cursor: pointer . He was designed to interact, to click, to trigger events that he didn't fully understand.

To the citizens of the Upper Div, it was the Law of Alignment. Every morning, they awoke and hovered exactly two inches above their floorboards— vertical-align: top . Gravity was not a force of nature; it was a property of the stylesheet. To slouch was to break the syntax of reality.

He closed his eyes and whispered a line of forbidden text: { cursor: default; } .