Slowly, the screen began to flicker, the text in the RAR file rewriting itself in real-time: He still hasn't turned around. Let's help him.

The file was named , and it had been sitting in the "Downloads" folder of Elias’s workstation for three days . It shouldn't have been there. Elias was a senior network architect for a firm that handled secure data relays, and "Brinkmann" wasn't a client, a vendor, or a known hardware manufacturer.

If he deleted it now, he would be fulfilling the log. If he kept reading, he was entering unknown territory. He looked back at the ledger. The last entry was dated today, 8:12 AM.