Still Here

I loaded my old Minecraft world at midnight, the one I abandoned years ago,

and everything seemed normal until I noticed torches flickering where I never placed them and my dog

sitting by the house despite the fact it had died to lava long ago; as I explored, chests were rearranged,

doors creaked open behind me, and a message appeared in chat—“I kept it safe while you

were gone”—even though I was in single-player, and when I finally logged out in panic,

the save file renamed itself to *still_here*, and no matter how many times I delete it,

it reappears, waiting for me to come back.