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Leo stared at the blinking cursor. The download window was frozen at the last byte: "Download - XXXX -18-.mov -1.1 MB - Complete."

The video was grainy, shot from a high corner of a room he almost recognized—his own living room, but from three apartments ago. The time stamp read 18:00:00 . Download- Xxxx -18-.mov -1.1 MB-

"You opened it," the past Leo said. His voice was hollow, like it traveled through water. Leo stared at the blinking cursor

Then, from his current laptop's speakers—a whisper, not from the video, but from his own microphone: like it traveled through water. Then

A figure sat in the old blue armchair, back to the camera. It was him. Younger. He watched his past self type frantically on a laptop, then stop.