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When Elias finally clicked play, the screen didn't show a family vacation or a leaked movie. Instead, the footage was grainy, shot from a high-angle security camera overlooking a rain-slicked loading dock. For the first thirty seconds, nothing moved except the rhythmic oscillation of a single hanging lightbulb. Then, a figure appeared.

Elias looked at his keyboard. Resting on the 'Enter' key was a small, damp patch of water, as if it had just stopped raining inside his office. 1_5035543344298590951.MP4

The file was buried in a folder named simply TEMP_CACH . No one remembered downloading it, and the date modified was listed as —the "Epoch" date that usually meant the metadata had been wiped clean. When Elias finally clicked play, the screen didn't

Elias leaned in, his face inches from the monitor. Just as the figure turned toward the camera—revealing not a face, but a reflection of the room Elias was currently sitting in—the video reached its end. Then, a figure appeared