He deleted the file, but when he looked at his phone's camera roll, the latest photo—taken automatically by the front-facing lens—was titled A55D98C_thumbs(1).jpg .
In the photo, Elias was standing in his own office, but his shadow was pointing toward the desk lamp, and his arm was raised, caught in a wave he didn't remember making. A55D98C_thumbs.jpg
When he double-clicked it, his screen flickered. The thumbnail showed a person standing on a mountain ridge, their arm raised as if waving. But there was a glitch: the person’s shadow stretched in the wrong direction, pointing toward the sun instead of away from it. He deleted the file, but when he looked