The desire for success, recognition, and self-actualization.

If you want, I can: draft the full feature (1,200–1,600 words) now using public sources and assumed interview quotes, or wait to incorporate real interview responses — which do you prefer?

For three weeks, Leo lived two lives. By day, he sold insurance policies in a gray cubicle, ate sad desk salads, and forgot to text his mother back. By night, as soon as the zip closed over his head, he fell into Elara’s world. They walked across oceans made of liquid twilight. They argued gently about whether a certain constellation looked more like a rabbit or a teapot (it was a teapot, obviously). She taught him how to catch fireflies that sang, and he taught her how to shuffle a deck of cards he’d manifested from a thought.