Leo tried to Alt-F4. The screen flickered, but the game stayed open. He tried to unplug the monitor, but the image remained burnt into the glass, powered by some phantom current.

On screen, the entity stopped. She didn't look at the player character; she looked directly into the "camera"—directly at Leo.

He saw her at the end of the hallway. This wasn't the cartoonish antagonist from the mobile games. This "Granny" was a hyper-realistic, grey-skinned woman with cataracts so thick they looked like boiled eggs. She wasn't holding a bat; she was holding a rusted surgical saw.