Then the screen went black. The laptop powered off. The room was silent except for the rain outside—real rain now, or maybe just the film’s soundtrack bleeding through. Lena sat in the dark, her own breath loud in her ears. She reached for her phone to call someone, anyone, but the screen was already on. No signal bars. Just a single video file, already playing.

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At 22:00, the woman in red led the man through a door that should have led to a kitchen but instead opened onto a narrow hallway lined with mirrors. In each reflection, the man was different: one smiling, one with a gun to his head, one holding a photograph of Lena herself—Lena, sitting exactly as she was now, in her cheap apartment, staring at a laptop.

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