Lv_0_202211072124491.mp4 (2024)

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.

Beneath the floorboard, he found it: a small, sapphire-blue metal box. He reached for the latch, then froze. The video hadn't been a memory. It was a warning from a version of himself that had already lived through whatever happened next. lv_0_202211072124491.mp4

He looked back at the laptop. The file was gone. The drive was empty. Elias sat back, his heart hammering