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Elias grabbed his phone, using the screen as a makeshift mirror. He tilted it slowly, angling the reflection toward the corner. The corner was empty.

The Elias in the video turned around. He looked directly into the camera, but his face was a blur of digital noise, a swirling vortex of pixels that refused to resolve. He raised a hand and pointed. Not at the camera, but at something behind the Elias sitting in the real chair. 0gzjpgixd3hby6revi1zw_720p.mp4

A text box appeared at the bottom of the video player, mimicking a subtitle: “Buffer complete. Execution beginning.” Elias grabbed his phone, using the screen as