The face on screen twitched. Its eyes followed his cursor. Leo held his expression neutral. 0:42. The grin on screen wobbled , then cracked wider—teeth multiplying, gums bleeding into the corners.
A timer appeared. 0:59. 0:58.
His laptop webcam light flickered on—green, then red. A file saved to his desktop: . He tried to delete it. It respawned.
But the game decided he had.
Objective: Don’t smile for 60 seconds. Easy. Leo smirked at the screen.
He clicked.
The screen went black. Then, a face appeared—pale, frozen, grinning too wide. Pixelated, but wrong. The smile didn’t move with the rest of the animation. It stayed locked, like a wound.