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Elias felt the air in his room turn cold. His hand moved toward the mouse to close the window, but the cursor wouldn’t budge. On the screen, his older self began to weep, pointing frantically at the corner of the room—the corner right behind Elias’s left shoulder. The countdown hit zero. 0gmg4cyhje03a0vhremmg_720p_1207624.m4v

Elias leaned in. On the screen, a hand entered the frame. It placed a brass key on the desk—a key Elias recognized. It was the one to his grandfather’s locked trunk in the attic, the one he’d lost ten years ago. The video jumped