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The laptop powered off.

Leo sat in the dark for a long time. His left hand throbbed. He looked at the red line on his palm. It was no longer a straight cut. It had curved into a shape. A letter. No—two letters, burned into his skin like a brand:

The screen dissolved into a 3D environment—cramped, low-poly, and aggressively brown. A kitchen. No, a slaughterhouse kitchen. The camera was fixed in first-person, and his hands were thick, meaty fists. On the counter in front of him: a raw pig’s head. A timer appeared in the top-right corner: 03:00 . A small text box beneath it read: “Granny needs her breakfast. Carve the bacon before she wakes. Do not cut yourself.”