When the extraction bar finally hit 100%, a single video file appeared. Elias clicked play.
The footage was grainy, filmed from a shaky handheld camera in a crowded subway station. It wasn't Elias holding the phone. The camera followed a man in a tan trench coat who was walking with an odd, rhythmic limp. As the man turned a corner toward a restricted maintenance tunnel, he stopped and looked directly into the lens. VID 20171121 (2).rar
Elias froze. The man in the video was him —but seven years younger, wearing clothes he never owned, in a city he had never visited. When the extraction bar finally hit 100%, a
In the video, the younger Elias reached into his pocket, pulled out a small, metallic cylinder, and dropped it into a trash bin before disappearing into the tunnel. It wasn't Elias holding the phone