G391.mp4

Inside the diner sat a single man, his back to the camera. He was perfectly still. For three minutes, nothing happened. Elias was about to close the window when the man’s reflection in the dark window pane shifted.

The file labeled sat on the desktop of Elias’s workstation, a lone icon against a backdrop of deep space wallpaper. He didn’t remember downloading it, and the metadata was a mess of null characters and corrupted dates. When he finally clicked "Play," there was no sound. g391.mp4

As the "buffering" reached 100%, the sound finally kicked in—not through his speakers, but from the hallway behind him. It was the distinct, rhythmic chime of a diner’s door opening. Inside the diner sat a single man, his back to the camera

The man himself hadn't moved an inch, but in the reflection, he had turned around. Elias was about to close the window when