Silas tried to scream, but his jaw just locked into a wide, frozen smile. The low hum began in the back of his throat, and the world went white.
Silas froze. She had said his name. He checked the file properties. The creation date was listed as half a century before he was born. He felt a cold sweat break across his neck. He rewound the file a few seconds. 39017mp4
On the screen, the file name at the top of his vision changed. 39017.mp4 began to delete itself, character by character. In its place, a new file was being written directly into his neural memory drive. It was titled: 39018.mp4. Silas tried to scream, but his jaw just