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The room suddenly felt ice cold. Elias slammed his hand onto the keyboard, trying to force-quit the application. The system locked up. The cursor wouldn't move. The grinning figure in the video raised a finger and tapped on the inside of the media player window. Tap. Tap. Tap.

Heart hammering against his ribs, Elias slowly reached out and moved his coffee mug two inches to the left. On the screen, the version of him in the video didn’t move. He remained perfectly still, staring ahead with wide, unblinking eyes. 42144mp4

The sound didn't come from his headphones. It came from the glass of the physical monitor right in front of his face. The room suddenly felt ice cold

He didn't stay to finish his shift. He grabbed his coat, left the building, and didn't look back. It wasn't until he got home and checked his phone that he felt the true, paralyzing grip of terror. The cursor wouldn't move