The screen went black. The room went silent. And then, a hand, cold and smelling of ozone, rested gently on his shoulder.

Elias looked at the black monitor. In the reflection, he saw two of himself. One was terrified. The other was smiling.

The timestamp in the corner of the video matched the file name: 586-57-216-500-9. It was a countdown. Not in seconds, but in heartbeats. He watched his own back on the monitor as he sat at his desk, just twenty feet away from the camera hidden in the smoke detector.

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The screen went black. The room went silent. And then, a hand, cold and smelling of ozone, rested gently on his shoulder.

Elias looked at the black monitor. In the reflection, he saw two of himself. One was terrified. The other was smiling.

The timestamp in the corner of the video matched the file name: 586-57-216-500-9. It was a countdown. Not in seconds, but in heartbeats. He watched his own back on the monitor as he sat at his desk, just twenty feet away from the camera hidden in the smoke detector.