The fan in his laptop began to whine, spinning up to a high-pitched frequency that made his ears ring. The screen flickered. Instead of the usual extraction window, a single line of text appeared in a command prompt: Pedro has missed you.

The voice didn't come from his speakers. It came from the banana.

He had been searching the dark corners of the web for months to find this exact build. The retail version of the game was fine, but urban legends on old forums claimed that version 1.03 was different. They said it contained a level that was deleted by the developers because it was "too realistic." Julian clicked extract.

Julian pulled his hand back from the mouse. A cold draft swept through his small, locked apartment. Slowly, he looked over his shoulder.

It hadn't been there a minute ago. It was perfectly ripe, with a bright yellow peel and a small blue sticker that read Chiquita .

Julian stared at the file sitting in his drive: .