The reflection wasn't looking at the city. The digital eyes of "Mikoto" were staring directly out of the screen, fixed on the exact coordinates of the person viewing the file.
Underneath the image, a new file suddenly appeared in the folder, dated today: . September_2022_-_Mikoto.rar
The date was recent enough to be relevant, but the name "Mikoto" felt out of place among the corporate jargon. When Elias ran the extraction, the progress bar didn't crawl—it jumped. Within seconds, three files appeared on his desktop: audio_001.mp3 mikoto_render.tiff The reflection wasn't looking at the city
Inside a single folder titled "BACKUPS" sat one file: . September_2022_-_Mikoto.rar