At three in the morning on the first of the month, while nobody is awake to watch, the standing orders go out. Rent. The phone. The thing signed up for in 2019 and never cancelled.
Flow runs both directions, and the incoming half tends to get far less attention than the outgoing half — the wages, the credits, the small reimbursements that land without ceremony. It's easy to feel only the leaving, because leaving is the part that gets noticed.