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The footage was shaky, filmed from a phone hidden behind a stack of shipping containers. Through the digital grain, Elias saw a group of men in sterile white hazard suits standing around a crate that didn't belong to any commercial fleet. It was obsidian black, absorbing the harbor lights rather than reflecting them.

In the video, the crate began to vibrate. Not a physical shaking, but a blurring of its edges, as if it were vibrating out of the dimension itself. The audio was a cacophony of static and a high-pitched whine that made Elias’s teeth ache. Download File VID-20211217-WA0015.mp4

The blue link sat at the bottom of the encrypted chat, unblinking and indifferent. The footage was shaky, filmed from a phone