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His heart skipped. He hadn't entered his name anywhere. He scrolled up through the extracted data. There were logs of his keystrokes from three years ago. There were audio files of conversations he’d had in private. There were photos taken from his own webcam—images of him sleeping, working, and staring at this very screen. Download File el- J5FG9UD.zip

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He hovered his cursor over the link. His room was silent, save for the rhythmic hum of his cooling fans. With a sharp click, the download began. He hadn't entered his name anywhere

The screen flickered. For a second, the desktop wallpaper—a high-res photo of the Swiss Alps—distorted into static. Then, a single window popped open. It wasn't a folder of documents or photos. It was a terminal window, text scrolling so fast it was a blur of emerald green. "Stop," Elias whispered, tapping the escape key.

Elias opened it. The image showed the back of a man’s head, illuminated by the blue light of a computer monitor. In the reflection of the monitor within the photo, he could see a dark shape standing in the corner of the room—the corner directly behind him.