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He looked at his reflection in the dark screen of his monitor. In the dim light of his room, his reflection looked back. But as he blinked, his reflection didn't. The version of Elias in the glass stayed wide-eyed, its mouth slowly stretching into a grin that was too wide for a human face.

He opened the text file first. It contained a single line of code that looked like a checksum, followed by: “Synchronization complete. Please do not look behind the monitor.” m3pd.rar

He looked back at the laptop. On the closed lid, a small, red LED he had never noticed before began to blink in time with his racing heart. He looked at his reflection in the dark

The reflection raised a hand—not to its own face, but toward the edge of the screen, as if trying to find a grip on the bezel to pull itself out. The version of Elias in the glass stayed