Elias clicked his mouse, intending to refresh the desktop. Instead, the cursor vanished into the image.
He turned back, expecting to see the back of his chair, but there was only a shimmering, rectangular rift hanging in the gray mist—a window back to a world of dry carpets and unfinished emails. It was shrinking. 2560x1600 Rainy Forest Wallpaper">
The room grew cold. The smell of ozone and wet earth began to seep from the cooling fans of his PC. He reached out to touch the screen, but his hand didn't meet glass; it met the freezing, velvet texture of a moss-covered rock. Elias clicked his mouse, intending to refresh the desktop
He leaned in. In the bottom-right corner, nestled between the roots of a cedar tree that shouldn't have been that wide, was a flicker of something that wasn't there yesterday. It was a lantern, small and amber, casting a glow that defied the pixels around it. It was shrinking
From the shadows of the hyper-detailed pines, something moved. It wasn't a glitch. It was a silhouette, tall and spindly, its eyes the same static-white as a crashed program.