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Kaelen realized too late that wasn't a recording. It was a bridge. And something from that glass forest was currently calculating its way into his reality, one perfect reflection at a time.

Ten seconds in, a figure appeared. It wasn't a person, but a silhouette made of the same light and shadow as the pillars. It didn't speak, but it looked directly into the camera—directly at Kaelen. MGX41RTX.mp4

Kaelen, a junior data-miner with a habit of poking at digital bruises, bypassed the security lockout on a rainy Tuesday. He expected a corrupted surveillance feed or perhaps a fragment of old firmware. What he found instead was a window into a world that shouldn't exist. Kaelen realized too late that wasn't a recording