He tried to alt-tab, to force-quit, to pull the plug, but the screen remained fixed on a massive, vaulted door inscribed with symbols that burned with a pale, sickly light. As the door began to creak open, a message box flickered across the center of his monitor:
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The air in his room grew unnervingly cold. On-screen, Gilman’s hands appeared, but they were translucent, revealing skeletal structures that shifted like clockwork. Every time Elias moved the mouse, a soft, wet whispering echoed from his own headset, though it was unplugged. He tried to alt-tab, to force-quit, to pull
The hum reached a deafening crescendo, then snapped into total silence. Elias looked down at his own hands. In the dim light of the frozen monitor, they were beginning to glow with that same pale, sickly light, and for the first time, he felt the icy wind of an Antarctic night blowing from inside his computer tower. Elias looked down at his own hands