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Elias realized then that he hadn't just changed his wallpaper. He had moved into it. And in a world this high-definition, there was nowhere left for a low-res soul to hide.

Elias sat before the glow of his monitor, staring into the digital woods. It was just a wallpaper—a static image he’d downloaded to soothe his nerves—but tonight, the rain seemed to be falling in a rhythm he could almost hear. The droplets were frozen mid-air, clinging to the jagged edges of fern leaves with a clarity that made his eyes ache. 2560x1600 Rainy Forest Wallpaper">

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. Elias realized then that he hadn't just changed