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The power in the apartment cut out. In the sudden, absolute silence, the only thing Elias could hear was the audio file from the computer—the breathing—which was no longer coming from the speakers, but from the empty chair right behind him.

He rebooted, disconnected from the network, and opened the archive in a sandbox environment. Inside were three items:

Elias grabbed a heavy lamp from his desk, his eyes darting to the monitor. The text in "The Count.txt" was changing. His name was no longer at the bottom. A new line had appeared below it. 53699.rar.

A grainy, black-and-white photograph of a house Elias recognized as his childhood home.