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And the smell of popcorn. Always the smell of stale, buttered popcorn.
I turned around. Nothing there. Just the dripping faucet. I turned back to the mirror.
I sat in the dark, sweating, my heart a trapped animal. After ten minutes, the lights came back. The laptop was off. The site was gone from my history. I laughed, a shaky, hysterical sound. It was a glitch. A bad dream. sinister hdhub4u
Then I saw it. In the video feed, over my left shoulder, the shadow was back. Solid now. It had a shape—tall, thin, wearing a tattered suit from the 1970s. Its face was a smooth, gray void, but it was smiling. I could feel the grin.
Kabir sat up. "Dude, why is it so cold?" And the smell of popcorn
The shadow in the video reached around me and typed on my keyboard. I looked down at my real hands. They were hovering over the keys, moving without my command.
I didn't click it. But the video started playing anyway. Nothing there
It was gone. But written in the condensation on the glass, in my own handwriting, were the words:
Please sit still for optimal streaming quality.
I slammed the laptop shut. Kabir stirred. "Turn off the light, idiot," he mumbled.
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