A cold draft swept through his apartment, though the windows were shut. Elias reached for the power button on his PC, but his mouse moved on its own. It dragged the cursor to a text document on his desktop he hadn't created.
He decided to delete the local files and reinstall. But when he opened his file explorer, the "Succubus" folder wasn't filled with .dll or .exe files anymore. It was filled with image files—thousands of them.
He sat on the floor, gasping, waiting for his eyes to adjust. Silence reclaimed the room. He told himself it was a virus—a sophisticated, terrifying prank.
His heart hammered against his ribs. He looked at the timestamp of the photo: