The room was gone. It was just Elias standing in the grey void. He was looking down at a laptop. On the screen of that laptop was a folder containing a single file: Sample Images.rar .
He looked back at the screen. was now highlighted. He hesitated, then double-clicked. Sample Images.rar
The furniture began to melt into the floor. The sofa was a puddle of fabric; the TV was a slump of black plastic. The reflection of Elias remained, but his face was now a smooth, featureless surface. The room was gone
Inside were twelve images, labeled image_01.jpg through image_12.jpg . On the screen of that laptop was a
It wasn't a photo. It was a live feed of his own monitor. As he watched, a cursor—not his own—moved across the screen. It hovered over the "Delete" button for the entire folder.