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Elias zoomed in. The man was wearing the same distinct, vintage thrift-store jacket Elias had bought yesterday. The man in the photo was Elias. But the photo looked decades old, weathered by digital rot. The Realization

Finally, Elias opened view_me.png . It was a low-resolution photo of a television screen. The screen showed a news broadcast, but the "Breaking News" ticker at the bottom was blurred. In the center of the frame was a man standing in a crowded plaza, looking directly into the camera. 101018.rar

He looked back at the image. In the background of the shot, behind the "future" version of himself, every person in the plaza was looking up at the sky with the same expression of absolute, silent terror. Elias zoomed in