Instead, his monitor flickered. A small window popped up, but it wasn't a program interface. It was a live feed of his own desktop, except the colors were inverted. In the center of this mirrored world stood a character Leo didn't recognize—a gangly, hand-drawn jester with a face that was nothing but two 'X's for eyes and a wide 'D' for a mouth. The jester didn't move. It just stared.

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His "Work" folder was the first to go. It hit the edge of the window and shattered into a shower of binary code, which the jester greedily scooped up and stuffed into its wide, 'D' shaped mouth.