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In the frame, a man sat at the kitchen table, his back to the camera. He was hunched over a laptop, the blue light reflecting off the chrome toaster nearby.

Elias froze. Slowly, his gaze drifted toward the corner of his kitchen where the humming fridge stood. Taped to the side of the appliance, just out of his normal line of sight, was a small, black lens he had never noticed before. Download File 6579f47f1cf4568e18a906872c29e1ca.mp4

The video player opened to a static-heavy shot of a suburban kitchen. It was filmed from a high angle—the top of a refrigerator, maybe. The timestamp in the corner was buzzing with digital artifacts, flickering between the current date and one exactly ten years in the future. In the frame, a man sat at the

Elias felt a chill. That was his kitchen. That was the same dent in the toaster from when he’d dropped it moving in. He looked down at his own hands, then back at the screen. The man on the screen mirrored his movements exactly. Slowly, his gaze drifted toward the corner of