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“You didn’t capture the moment, Aris. You stole it. And now it’s in you.”

The memory jumped again. The laboratory. Fires. Alarms. Thorne running, clutching his head. Behind him, Elara walked slowly, calmly, through the flames. Her eyes were pure white. Where her hands should have been, there were only shifting blocks of corrupted data—pixelated, jagged, hungry. digicap.dav

She reached for her phone to call for backup. The screen was already glowing. “You didn’t capture the moment, Aris

The lights in her office went out. The temperature plummeted. And in the reflection of her blank monitor, Mara saw, for just a second, not her own face—but a woman with silver wires and pure white eyes, smiling. “You didn’t capture the moment