The video cut to black. The file size on Elias's screen immediately plummeted to .
As the man spoke, the walls behind him began to change. They didn't move or break; the texture simply shifted from gray concrete to a deep, shimmering violet. Elias leaned in, his nose inches from the screen. The "background" (the in the filename, he realized) was peeling away from reality. bg128.mp4
Suddenly, the man in the video stopped talking. He looked over his shoulder at the shifting wall and turned back to the camera with a look of pure, crystalline terror. The video cut to black