The grid on the screen suddenly surged with light. The "buildings" expanded into towering structures of pure data. Elias realized with a jolt that the camera wasn't a drone; it was a first-person perspective. Someone was inside this digital architecture.
"I think it’s a simulation," Elias replied, his fingers flying across the keys to stabilize the frame. "Or a recording of a place that shouldn't exist." Dod (231) mp4
As the smell of ozone filled the room, Elias looked at his own hands in the dim light of the dying monitor. For a split second, he thought he saw them flicker. The grid on the screen suddenly surged with light
We could explore that he might be a subject himself, or follow Sarah's attempt to find the physical location of the "Department" mentioned in the recording. Someone was inside this digital architecture