2.avi - Bayfiles Here

The screen stayed black for the first forty seconds. The only sound was a low-frequency hum, the kind that makes your teeth ache. Then, the image flickered to life. It was a fixed-angle shot of a hallway—Caleb’s own hallway, viewed from the corner near the ceiling.

He hit download. The progress bar crawled, a relic of a slower era. When it finally finished, Caleb hesitated. The file size was strangely large for an AVI—nearly 4GB for what the properties claimed was only three minutes of footage. He opened it in a basic media player. 2.avi - BayFiles

Caleb sat in the silence of his apartment, the blue light of the monitor reflecting in his wide eyes. Outside, the evening was calm. Then, with a soft clack of a breaker tripping, the monitor went dark. The streetlights outside flickered and died. The screen stayed black for the first forty seconds