Leo froze. He hadn't entered his name anywhere on the site. He hadn't even signed into his computer that morning.

The music started—a distorted, slowed-down version of "I Like to Move It." It sounded like it was being played through a broken radio underwater. On the character select screen, Alex the Lion stood perfectly still. His character model was twitching, the polygons stretching and snapping back into place. Leo tried to hit Esc , but his keyboard was unresponsive.

Leo stared at the blinking cursor on his screen, his finger hovering over the mouse. On the monitor, a single file name glowed in the dim light of his room: download-madagascar-apun-kagames-com.exe .