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For the first ten minutes, nothing moved. Then, a hand reached into the frame and placed a single, blue-bound book on a mahogany table. The person’s face remained off-camera, but Elias noticed a distinctive silver ring on their index finger—a ring he realized, with a jolt, was currently sitting in his own jewelry box.

A heavy thud echoed from the hallway of Elias's real apartment. It wasn't coming from the speakers. video501.mp4

: He whispered a test word—"Echo"—and three seconds later, the word hissed through the speakers of the video, spoken by a voice that was unmistakably his own, but older. The Warning For the first ten minutes, nothing moved