Some connections don’t arrive beautifully
they grow into beauty,
quietly, unexpectedly,
until you can’t imagine your life without them.

The building was quieter at night. Not silent buildings like this one are never truly silent, there is always the hum of something, the climate control or the distant sound of the city outside or the particular low frequency of a structure that is full of systems running without rest but quieter in the way that matters, which is the human quiet, the absence of other people's noise and other people's demands and the constant small interruptions that the daylight hours produce without ceasing.