The light in his room didn't change, but on the screen, he saw a hand—rendered in perfect, terrifying detail—reach out from the edge of the monitor toward the "Elias" on the screen.
The readme was a single line of broken English: “Do not look at the sun in the glass.” Real pic simulator 1.1 by polabuac12
In the simulator, the "camera" was standing directly behind him. The light in his room didn't change, but
Elias froze. He didn't turn around. Instead, he looked at the terminal one last time. A new message had appeared, sent from the user ID polabuac12 : “Simulator finished. Real pic starting now.” but on the screen