"You're almost out of time, Elias. The compression is ending."
When it finally finished, a single folder appeared on his desktop. Inside were three files: view_from_above.jpg READ_ME_IMMEDIATELY.txt 57423.rar
His heart thudded against his ribs as he opened the image. It was a high-resolution drone shot of a house in the suburbs. The roof was missing a few shingles near the chimney. A blue sedan was parked in the driveway with a cracked taillight. It was his house. But in the driveway, there was something that wasn't there when he got home: a tall, thin figure draped in a yellow raincoat, standing perfectly still, looking directly up at the camera. "You're almost out of time, Elias