A single, silent clap.
He snorted. A prank. Some bored hacker’s ARG. He ignored it and went to class. But when he opened his iPad during lecture, the countdown was still there, ticking down in red numbers superimposed over his notes.
His thumb hovered. This was stupid. Dangerous, even. But The Holdovers —he’d been dying to see it. He tapped download.
Liam fished the dead iPad out of the sink. The screen was cracked, dark, lifeless. Jenna’s phone, sitting on the counter, dinged. The black icon stuttered, turned grey, and dissolved into a puff of digital dust.