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Elias looked up from the monitor to the space behind it. There was no camera. Only the flat, grey plastic of the terminal casing and the dusty ventilation grate of the server room wall.

Gathering his courage, he stood up and walked back to the desk. He pulled the power cable straight out of the wall. The screen killed instantly. 42144mp4

He didn't stay to finish his shift. He grabbed his coat, left the building, and didn't look back. It wasn't until he got home and checked his phone that he felt the true, paralyzing grip of terror. Elias looked up from the monitor to the space behind it

The video opened with static that quickly resolved into a high-definition view of an empty office. He blinked. It was his office. He watched the screen as a man sitting at a desk stared intently at a monitor. The man was wearing the same grey hoodie Elias was wearing. He had the same tired eyes. Gathering his courage, he stood up and walked

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.