The power in Elias's house flickered. Outside, the evening birds went silent. He looked at his desk clock. The red digital numbers blinked once, then shifted.
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He looked back at the video. The man in the wool coat was now standing much closer to the lens, his "glitched" face pressed against the glass as if he were trying to see into Elias's office. The screeching sound stopped. In the sudden, suffocating silence, the man whispered a single word that bypassed the computer speakers and seemed to vibrate directly inside Elias’s skull: "Wait." The power in Elias's house flickered
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From the basement directly beneath his feet, Elias heard the first faint, rhythmic tick of a clock he didn't own.