He looked back at the screen. The video player was still playing, but the counter had stopped. It was stuck at 00:42. On the screen, the motionless version of Elias slowly began to smile—a wide, impossibly jagged grin that stretched far past the boundaries of a normal human face.
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Elias sat on the floor in the dark, bathed only in the red standby lights of the server racks, listening to the sound of his own ragged breathing. He waited for minutes that felt like hours, but nothing else happened. He looked back at the screen