Alstain.avi ✓

I haven’t opened it.

I closed the player. The desktop was still black. But now, underneath alstain.avi , a new file had appeared: alstain_reply.avi . Same size. Same timestamp. alstain.avi

At 0:07, the hand began to tap. One knuckle. Tap. Tap. Tap. Each tap left a dark smudge on the wood. The smudges didn’t fade. They spread. I haven’t opened it

The video had no audio—not silence, but the absence of sound, like a room after a gunshot. but the absence of sound

At 0:03, a hand rested on the chair’s back. Pale. Long fingers. No person attached—just the hand, as if the arm dissolved into static.