Rey had been in the office for some time when he heard a late arrival coming in.  He poked his head out to see who it was -- Xell.  Perfect!  He quickly ducked back to his computer, put the finishing touches on a few lines of code, and jumped the whole thing to his ever-present flash drive.  "Hey, Xell, you got a minute?" Rey started to ask, but the dragon was apparently deep in thought.

"Always like this?" Rey mused, scraping at months of dull memories.  "I dunno.  I don't think so.  But whatever you're dealing with, it'll get better.  Just gotta keep hanging in there."  That was what he told himself, when the gray got too thick to handle.  He knew things had been brighter, once.  Now even his paintings kept featuring fog and gray haze.

He brushed off the darker thoughts with a shake of his head.  "At any rate, would you mind if I borrowed your computer for a minute?  Your monitor's at a different resolution than mine, and I want to make sure this page works right."