He clicked the button: .

In the video, a figure appeared at the edge of the frame. It was blurry, a glitching mess of pixels that seemed to tear at the edges of the screen. It moved with a jittery, stop-motion gait, heading toward the bedroom.

Elias hesitated. The file size was listed as 0 KB, yet it had taken up forty gigabytes of his hard drive space. He double-clicked.