Elias pulled the plug on his monitor. The screen went black, but the bruised purple glow of the thumbnail remained burned into his vision. When he looked at his phone, a notification was waiting.

At , the video begins to "bleed." The digital artifacts don't just distort the image; they seem to reorganize it. The playground equipment begins to stretch upward, turning into jagged, obsidian towers. The person in the yellow suit begins to speak, but their mouth doesn't move. Instead, text crawls across the bottom of the screen in a font that Elias doesn't recognize.

Elias tried to pause the video at , the timestamp that matched the filename. The image froze, but the hum continued to get louder. On the screen, the figure in the yellow suit was no longer in the playground. They were standing in a room that looked exactly like Elias’s home office, looking at a computer screen that displayed the same video.