Elias stood up, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. In his headset, he heard the exact sound of the chair scraping, delayed by a few seconds.
Against his better judgment, he ran the executable. His speakers didn’t emit music or static; they emitted the sound of breathing—his own breathing. Through the headset, he heard the rhythmic click of his mechanical keyboard from thirty seconds ago. Download File 32987.rar
A soft ding echoed through the room. Another notification appeared on his screen, right next to the first one: Elias stood up, his chair scraping loudly against the floor
He walked to the window and pulled back the curtain. The street was empty, bathed in the pre-dawn gray of Pensacola. But as he looked down at his monitor, the image in the folder had updated. His speakers didn’t emit music or static; they