He went to pull the power plug, but his hands wouldn't move. He felt a strange, rhythmic clicking in his joints. He looked down at his fingers. He had too many knuckles.
He froze as the "spider-hand" in the video reached for the monitor and turned it toward the camera. On the screen within the video, Elias saw a live feed of himself, sitting in his chair, staring at a file named . 0h4sqri8fu8ewd6uk6rjm_source.mp4
Elias looked back at the video. The desk in the recording was no longer empty. A coffee mug had appeared on the digital desk—the same chipped "World's Best Dad" mug sitting next to Elias’s keyboard right now. He went to pull the power plug, but his hands wouldn't move