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Beatrice was staring directly into the lens. She wasn’t smiling. She was waiting.

>ERROR: NO_SIGNAL

Then the screen went to static.

Elena sat in the silent attic, her heart hammering against her ribs. She looked around. The dusty boxes. The rusted birdcage. The radiator. Everything was still. Everything was normal. Untitled Video

The file was simply called Untitled_Video.mov . No thumbnail, no metadata, just a creation date of October 12, 1999, and a file size that was impossibly small for its alleged runtime of one hour and forty-seven minutes. Beatrice was staring directly into the lens