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It was Lauran. She was looking directly at the camera, her lips moving, but no sound came out of the speakers anymore. The audio had gone into a frequency so high it was silent to his ears, yet he could feel his teeth aching.

Elias looked at the clock on his wall. It was 11:45 and 50 seconds. The audio returned with a deafening, crystal-clear snap. 1146_lauran_1_1_2-8kaudio.mov

The black screen on the monitor began to shift. The darkness wasn't solid anymore; it was grain, moving like smoke. Slowly, a shape began to form in the 8k resolution—a silhouette of a woman standing in a vast, grey expanse. It was Lauran