Leo pulled off his headphones. The sound had come from his room, not the speakers. From the corner. Where the shadows pooled thicker than they should.
The last thing he saw was the ISO’s metadata, burned into his screen like a brand: twilight princess wii iso
The hard drive was a graveyard of abandoned save files. Leo scrolled past Call of Duty campaigns he’d never finish and Mario Kart ghosts he’d never beat, his finger hovering over the search bar. The cursor blinked patiently. Leo pulled off his headphones
Leo tried to close the emulator. Alt+F4 did nothing. Task Manager refused to open. His mouse moved in sluggish, heavy circles, as if pulling against a current. Where the shadows pooled thicker than they should
Leo reached for the power strip. But the shadow under his desk had already grown teeth.