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Curiosity, that old digital itch, took over. He double-clicked.

It was a photo of the desktop screen he was currently looking at, showing the folder "Download images (23) jpeg," but in this photo, the cursor was hovering over a new, twenty-fourth file. A notification chirped in the corner of his screen. New download complete: Image (24).jpeg

got stranger. They were photos of his own apartment building. One showed the lobby. Another showed the specific, chipped paint on his front door. His heart hammered a quick, uneven rhythm against his ribs. Images 13 through 20 were snapshots of him. Download images (23) jpeg

The folder on Elias’s desktop was titled with the clinical indifference of an automated process:

It hadn't loaded yet. The icon was still a generic JPEG placeholder. Slowly, the progress bar underneath it crawled toward the end. Curiosity, that old digital itch, took over

He didn't remember clicking "Download All." He didn't even remember the website. But there it was, sitting on his cluttered digital workspace like a stray cat waiting to be let in.

were mundane—vacation photos of a pier he’d never visited, a bowl of fruit under harsh fluorescent light, and a blurry shot of a highway at dusk. "Just a cache error," Elias muttered, leaning back in his swivel chair. A notification chirped in the corner of his screen

A photo of the back of his head, taken seconds ago. Image 22: A photo of his hand reaching for the mouse to close the folder.