The file sat at the bottom of an old "Downloads" folder, a 140MB ghost titled Iniya_Feb_03_2023_360p.mkv .
Karthik didn’t remember recording it. February 3rd had been a Tuesday, a blur of rain and office deadlines. But there it was. He double-clicked. The media player struggled for a second before a grainy, pixelated world flickered to life. Iniya_Feb_03_2023_360p.mkv
Karthik looked out his window at the city lights. He had forgotten. The guest house had failed within a year, they had moved back, and the "why" had been buried under the weight of "what happened." The file sat at the bottom of an