Raghav laughed nervously. Found footage. Fourth-wall break. Clever.

Then a man’s voice—warm, kind, the same voice as Santosh’s—said: “She shouldn’t have trusted you. But she trusted me. That was her real mistake.” Raghav tried to close VLC. The window wouldn’t close. He killed the process in Task Manager. The video resumed. He pulled the ethernet cable. The video kept playing.

Raghav spun around. The room was empty. But on his wall, where a framed photo of Meera used to hang, there was now a sticky note in handwriting he didn’t recognize:

The boy slid a flash drive across the counter. Labeled:

That’s when he saw it.

But as he looked down—through the floorboards, through the concrete, through the years of denial—he felt it: a hollow space. A crawlspace under the building’s foundation. Sealed in 2019. Right when Meera vanished. Raghav ran. He grabbed his phone, his keys, his wallet. He ran out of the apartment, down the stairs, past the watchman who didn’t exist (the watchman had died in 2022, but Raghav had never noticed). He ran into the street, where the sodium lamps flickered in a rhythm that spelled S-A-N-T-O-S-H in Morse code.

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