The progress bar stalled at 99%. A prompt appeared:
Elias leaned in. The hallway in the video looked familiar. The peeling wallpaper, the crooked radiator, the way the light from the streetlamp outside hit the floorboards at a sharp angle. It was his hallway.
Against his better judgment, he ran it. The screen went pitch black. Then, a low-frequency hum began to vibrate the laptop’s cheap speakers. A grainy video feed flickered to life. It wasn't a movie; it looked like a doorbell camera pointed at a dark hallway.
The progress bar stalled at 99%. A prompt appeared:
Elias leaned in. The hallway in the video looked familiar. The peeling wallpaper, the crooked radiator, the way the light from the streetlamp outside hit the floorboards at a sharp angle. It was his hallway.
Against his better judgment, he ran it. The screen went pitch black. Then, a low-frequency hum began to vibrate the laptop’s cheap speakers. A grainy video feed flickered to life. It wasn't a movie; it looked like a doorbell camera pointed at a dark hallway.