He watched himself in the video, typing furiously, until a shadow pooled in the corner of the frame—behind the "him" on screen. The shadow stretched, not like a person, but like a wound opening. Leo spun around in his real chair.

The upload completed. A new thumbnail appeared on his homepage. But it wasn't the poster for Chandni Raat 2 . It was a still frame he had never seen before: a woman in a white sari, standing at the end of a long corridor, her face a blur of static. The title under it simply read: .

The temperature dropped. The screen flickered and went black. Then, a single line of white text appeared: