Leo pulled off his headphones. The sound had come from his room, not the speakers. From the corner. Where the shadows pooled thicker than they should.
The sun blinked.
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And in the silence, a faint, tinny sound came from his monitor speakers: the howl of a wolf, layered over a laugh track from a long-canceled TV show. Leo pulled off his headphones
Leo tried to close the emulator. Alt+F4 did nothing. Task Manager refused to open. His mouse moved in sluggish, heavy circles, as if pulling against a current. Where the shadows pooled thicker than they should
On-screen, the children of Ordon were gone. The village was empty. But the cursor—the glowing fairy pointer the Wii Remote would have used—was still there. It drifted across the screen on its own, slow and deliberate, until it pointed at the in-game sun.