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His speakers didn't erupt with the booming organ of "Once in Royal David’s City." Instead, the room went silent—the kind of silence that feels heavy, like thick snow falling in a graveyard. Then, a single, high-tenor note pierced the air. It wasn't coming from his speakers; it seemed to be vibrating from the walls themselves.

When the file finally settled on his desktop, he right-clicked to extract it. But as the decompression finished, something was wrong. Instead of a folder full of .wav or .flac files, there was only one: Procession.exe . Carols_from_King_s_College.rar

The file was named Carols_from_King_s_College.rar , and for Elias, it was the digital equivalent of a message in a bottle. His speakers didn't erupt with the booming organ

The figure began to walk toward the camera, the sound of footsteps echoing in Elias’s actual hallway. Thump. Thump. Thump. When the file finally settled on his desktop,