Then he looked at the reflection in the window behind the table. In the glass, he saw the back of a man’s head—a man sitting at a desk, looking at a computer screen. The man in the reflection was wearing the exact same grey hoodie Elias was wearing right now.
According to internet legend, the image wasn't supposed to exist. It was a photo taken inside a server farm in 2014 during a massive electrical surge. People claimed that if you opened the file, the metadata didn't show a timestamp or a camera model—it showed a set of coordinates that changed every time you refreshed the folder. Elias took a breath and double-clicked. Download 161901932 3947513018621380 7369424295534139062 jpg
As Elias moved his mouse to zoom in on the reflection’s face, the file name on the top of the window began to change. The long string of numbers started counting down. Then he looked at the reflection in the