The media player flickered to life, but instead of the roaring lion of a movie studio or a blast of orchestral music, there was only silence. The screen remained a deep, matte black. Elias checked the seek bar; the file was exactly two hours and fourteen minutes long. He dragged the slider to the middle.
Elias didn't turn around. He just watched the monitor as the shadow grew larger, reaching out a hand toward the person on the screen. The file reached 2:14:00. The screen went black. tfpdl-btt10572x.mkv
He looked at the very end of the seek bar. There were only four minutes left in the file. On the screen, a shadow was moving in the hallway behind his chair—a hallway that, in the real world, was currently silent and dark. The media player flickered to life, but instead