Svrcina - Who Are You? (official Lyric Video) File

He whispered the question to the empty room, his voice cracking with a terrifying realization: "If I'm not them... then who am I?"

He stood up, his legs heavy, and walked to a cracked mirror in the corner of the room. He traced the scar on his jaw. Had he gotten that in a childhood bike accident in Ohio, or was that part of the "Julian" backstory he’d bought from a dealer in Berlin? He tried to summon a memory that didn't feel like a line of code. He thought of a mother's voice, but it sounded like a synthesized recording. He thought of a first love, but her face was a composite of three different stock photos.

Elias froze. He turned back to the screens, his fingers flying across the keys to trace the source, but the message began to delete itself, letter by letter. As it vanished, his own files began to corrupt. Julian’s records turned to gibberish. Leo’s photos dissolved into static.