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A heavy thud echoed from the hallway of Elias's real apartment. It wasn't coming from the speakers.

: When a thunderstorm broke out over Elias’s actual apartment, the windows in the video turned grey with rain. video501.mp4

He looked back at the screen. The video was no longer showing the library. It was now a live feed of his own hallway, filmed from a high corner he had never noticed. On the screen, he saw the door to his basement slowly creaking open. A heavy thud echoed from the hallway of

At the twenty-minute mark, the version of Elias on screen finally sat down. He looked tired. He didn't look at the camera; he looked at the blue book. He opened it to the middle and began to read aloud a series of coordinates and a date: . Elias froze. That was today. He looked back at the screen