In the video, he saw himself sitting at the desk. But there was something else. In the corner of his room, just behind the shadows of his bookshelf, a figure was standing. It was tall, impossibly thin, and wearing a mask that looked like a distorted version of Elias's own face.
Elias froze. He didn't turn around. He didn't breathe. He watched the screen as the hand in the video closed the gap. He felt the sudden, icy pressure of a thumb and forefinger against his real-life collarbone. A text box appeared on the screen, overlaying the feed: SPECIAL1175_PACK3.part2.rar
His webcam light flickered to life—a steady, predatory blue. His monitors went pitch black, except for a small, grainy window in the center of the main screen. It was a live feed of a room. It took Elias five seconds to realize he was looking at the back of his own head. In the video, he saw himself sitting at the desk
In the video, the figure began to reach out a long, pale hand toward Elias’s shoulder. It was tall, impossibly thin, and wearing a
With a trembling hand, Elias dragged the file into his extraction software. Enter Password:
The monitors died. The apartment went silent. The blue webcam light stayed on.