That was impossible. Even an empty text document had some weight, but the system insisted there was nothing there. Elias right-clicked and hit "Extract."
In the video, Elias saw himself sitting at the desk, leaning toward the screen. But in the video, there was a second figure standing directly behind his chair. It was thin, translucent, and its fingers were resting lightly on his shoulders.
He tried to unplug the drive, but his hand wouldn't move. He wasn't frozen by fear. He was lagging. His movements were stuttered, dropping frames, until he became a still image in the dark, just another compressed bit of data waiting to be archived.
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