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He clicked. The progress bar crawled with agonizing slowness. 12%... 45%... 89%.

When the file finally unzipped, it revealed a single video. He double-clicked, and the screen flickered to life. The footage was shaky, clearly handheld. It showed a sun-drenched park—Delaney Square—bursting with spring colors. The camera panned past a group of musicians to a bench where a man sat reading. Download File VID_20220529_104426_208.rar

The video cut to black. A second later, a notification chirped on Elias's phone. A calendar invite for Delaney Square. Time: 10:44 AM. Date: Today. He clicked

In the video, he looked healthy, vibrant, and—most impossibly—he was laughing with someone just out of frame. He checked the timestamp on the video metadata: 10:44 AM. On that day, at that exact time, he had been shivering under three blankets three miles away. He double-clicked, and the screen flickered to life

The cursor hovered over the link: .

Elias felt the air leave his lungs. The man on the bench was him.