Elias hovered his mouse over it, but the icon moved on its own, dodging his cursor.
His monitor flickered. The .rar file on his desktop began to grow in size—kilobytes turning into gigabytes, then terabytes, faster than his hard drive should have allowed. Totally.Accurate.Battle.Simulator.v1.1.4.rar
Then, the audio shifted. The cheerful, brassy battle music distorted into a low, rhythmic chanting. A new unit icon appeared in the sidebar—one not found in any faction. It was a silhouette of a man sitting at a desk. The tooltip simply read: . Elias hovered his mouse over it, but the
Elias reached for the power button, but his hand froze. On the screen, a single Squire walked up to the camera until its giant, wobbling eye filled the entire display. Then, the audio shifted
The screen went black. When Elias rebooted, the file was gone. But every time he looked in a mirror, he felt a strange, ragdoll-like looseness in his limbs, and for a split second, his own eyes looked just a bit too round, a bit too white, and a bit too googly.