She reloaded the last saved file, Echo_Final_Final_v146.scene . She toggled the Camera_1.46 to active.

It was moving through the virtual scene, passing through walls she had built, navigating streets that shouldn't have collision enabled. It was looking at something she hadn't modeled.

At 1:47 AM, the light from her screen cast long shadows. The silence was broken by the faint whirring of the server rack behind her speeding up, then slowing down, like a heavy breath.

Her heart pounded. Was this a bug in the 1.46 rendering engine? Or was something else in her scene—something not of her creation—controlling the View ?

Maya’s breath hitched. She looked at the View_Log_1.46 tab. It showed the camera active. It showed the camera moving .