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Elias checked the date. November 7, 2022. He remembered that night—a blackout had hit the city, and he’d spent the evening in candlelight, reading. He didn't own a camera then. He double-clicked.

Elias sat back, his heart hammering. He looked at the blue chair in the video again. Then he looked at the corner of his actual room. There was no chair, but there was a small, dusty patch on the floorboards where the finish had worn away in a perfect square. lv_0_202211072124491.mp4

A figure walked into the frame. It was Elias, but his hair was longer, his face thinner. He looked directly at the lens, his expression unreadable. He didn't speak. Instead, he held up a handwritten sign: The video cut to static at exactly 21:24:49. Elias checked the date