It arrived in a blank email from an address that was just a string of hex code. Alex wasn't the type to click suspicious links, but he was a data archivist for a firm that specialized in "lost media." Mystery files were his job. He dragged the 4.2 GB archive into a sandbox environment and hit extract. The progress bar crawled. 98%... 99%... Complete.
Alex didn't turn around. He just watched the screen as a shadow appeared in the doorway of his digital room, moving closer to the back of his digital head. He reached for the mouse to close the window, but the cursor wouldn't move. The archive was still extracting. Full HD Video.rar
Alex instinctively reached up and touched the exact same spot on his own neck. It arrived in a blank email from an