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Elias looked at the audio player. The waveform wasn't a sound wave anymore; it was a heartbeat. His heartbeat. Every time he moved, the wave spiked. Every time he held his breath, it flattened.

He tried to delete the file, but the system returned an error: File in use by 'System_Consciousness'. Elias looked at the audio player

As the clicking grew louder, Elias noticed his monitor flickering. The pixels began to rearrange themselves, forming shapes that weren't part of his operating system. They looked like constellations, shifting and swirling across the dark screen. Elias looked at the audio player

The screen went black. A single line of text appeared: “Compression complete. Uploading Elias.rar...” Elias looked at the audio player