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Elias checked the file properties. The "Date Created" was tomorrow.

The video didn't end. It continued for another ten minutes, showing the empty, silent bathroom. The sun set. The marble grew cold. Then, a hand—perfectly human, manicured and pale—reached out from the bottom of the frame and turned the camera off. OF Bathroom clean.mp4

On the screen, a new folder appeared. It was titled: . Elias checked the file properties

Elias leaned in. Behind her, in the reflection of the vanity mirror, a shadow moved. It wasn’t a person. It was a glitch—a jagged, pixelated tear in the footage that seemed to swallow the light around it. As the woman backed away, the "glitch" stepped out of the mirror’s reflection and into the room. It continued for another ten minutes, showing the

He looked at his own reflection in his darkened monitor. He felt a sudden, cooling breeze, though his windows were shut. Slowly, he moved his mouse toward the "Delete" icon, but his cursor wouldn't move.