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He pulled up the metadata. There was no GPS location tagged, no camera model listed. The timestamp simply read: September 14, 2018, 05:42 PM.

He expected a smoking gun, perhaps a scanned document or a incriminating screenshot. Instead, the image that filled his monitor was breathtakingly ordinary, which somehow made it worse. 9AF3B32C-76D4-4601-A761-1ED072647942.jpeg

Elias closed the file and looked out his own window at the dark city skyline. He wondered who had been driving, who had been shooting the photo, and why the memory of that beautiful, stormy afternoon was something they ultimately decided they had to destroy. If you'd like to take this story further, let me know: He pulled up the metadata

Should we focus on and why they were hiding? who had been shooting the photo