Eris’s throat went dry. “Who is this?”
Eris leaned closer. Her coffee went cold.
She checked her phone. The date was .
Future Eris glanced over her shoulder. Someone was knocking. Three slow knocks. Then two fast ones.
Someone—or some thing —had already watched this file on August 6th, 2024. Eighteen months before she, Eris, had ever laid eyes on it. Video Title- KA24080630-baeyeonseo5wol28ilpaenbang
The timestamp in the video said May 28th, 2024. That was almost two years ago. But the woman in the video had been her. Same face. Same voice. Same scar.
She opened the file properties again. Buried in the hex data, almost invisible, was a second timestamp. Eris’s throat went dry
A man’s voice, calm and terribly familiar though she’d never heard it before, said: “You just played file KA24080630. Did you finish the video?”