"It’s breathing, Elias!" her voice crackled through the tinny laptop speakers.
Just as the men in grey reached the light of the sparks, the video glitched. A frame of pure white light frozen for a microsecond showed something impossible: the sparks weren't falling to the ground anymore. They were suspended in mid-air, forming the distinct shape of a hand reaching back toward Maya. The video ended abruptly at 02:14. Sparks Fly-17082022_720p.mp4
The video file was titled Sparks Fly-17082022_720p.mp4. It sat on Elias’s desktop for three years, a digital ghost from a night he tried to forget. He finally clicked play. "It’s breathing, Elias
