Preludia.

A warm voice in the same register as Vena — soft pink, bone, a bruised violet underneath. Painted by the same hand.

Tightly-woven fine-pick cloth. Dye sublimated at the fiber, not on it. Fine-stitched edge — low-profile stitching that stays out of the wrist on hour three.

A single face, submerged. The palette is cool, almost cold — indigo and ultramarine, the colour a screen is rarely allowed to be.

The best-selling pad in the house. Commissioned from a painter who doesn't work in esports — the brief was one word: quiet. She returned with this.

Stock grip tape comes as a rectangle. Every player hand-trims it — badly. We cut the tape once, on a plotter, for seventeen mice people actually buy.

0.25 ± 0.03 mm rubberized film. Micro-textured enough to hold through sweat; thin enough that you feel the mouse, not the tape. Registration marks mean no guesswork, no bubbles.