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The video didn't open in a standard player. Instead, his screen flickered to a deep, oceanic blue. There was no sound at first, just the visual of a camera moving through a hallway that looked hauntingly familiar. It was his own house, filmed in the grainy, high-contrast style of a security feed.

The notification on Elias’s screen was unremarkable, yet it felt like an anchor: . Download File pv2.m4v

Elias froze. The air in the room suddenly felt ten degrees colder. He could hear the soft hum of his refrigerator and, faintly, the sound of a floorboard creaking in the hallway. The video didn't open in a standard player

The filename, pv2.m4v , was a cryptic shorthand. Project Vision 2? Private Video 2? He hovered his cursor over the cancel button, but curiosity—that old, nagging itch—held his hand back. It was his own house, filmed in the

He didn't turn around. Instead, he watched the video. A shadow moved into the frame behind his on-screen self—a tall, flickering shape that didn't seem to have a solid form. It reached out a hand toward the Elias on the screen.

The "camera" turned the corner into the kitchen. On the screen, a version of Elias sat at the table, staring at a laptop. In the video, the Elias on-screen looked up, not at the camera, but directly into the lens—as if he could see the real Elias sitting in the chair right now.

The on-screen Elias held up a handwritten sign. It read: “DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU.”