The Elias in the video turned around. He looked directly into the camera, but his face was a blur of digital noise, a swirling vortex of pixels that refused to resolve. He raised a hand and pointed. Not at the camera, but at something behind the Elias sitting in the real chair.
He clicked download. The progress bar crawled. When it finished, he hesitated, then hit play. 0gzjpgixd3hby6revi1zw_720p.mp4
On screen, the camera glided up the driveway. It didn’t stop at the door. It rose, tilting upward to the second-floor window. The window of the room Elias was sitting in right now. The Elias in the video turned around