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Underneath it, the pen added a new line that hadn't been in the "downloaded" version: “Look behind you instead.”

He didn't see anyone. But as the clock ticked to 10:47, the pen stood up on its own, gripped by an invisible hand, and began to mirror the image on his computer screen. “Don’t look at the metadata,” the pen wrote. Download IMG 1668181667922 jpg

When he double-clicked it, the screen stayed black for a long moment before an image flickered to life. It wasn't a photo of a person or a place. It was a high-resolution shot of a hand-written note sitting on a kitchen table. The wood grain of the table looked hauntingly familiar. The note read: “Don’t look at the metadata.” Underneath it, the pen added a new line