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James: Luke, you there?

Luke: Yeah, what’s up?

James: Found something on my brother’s old laptop.

Luke: The one he left behind when he vanished?

James: Yeah. It was just sitting there all this time.

Luke: Holy shit. What exactly did you find?

James: A weird file—looks like an old saved chat log.

Luke: His chat?

James: Not sure yet. Just opened it.

Luke: Why now? It’s been years.

James: I was going through his stuff and found a hidden folder.

Luke: Seriously? What was weird about it?

James: It was just named ‘do not open.’

Luke: And you just waltzed in and opened it? Classic you.

James: Not in the mood, Luke. You know I’ve been obsessing over this.

Luke: Sorry. What’s actually in the file?

James: A conversation between people on some weird app. ‘CircleChat’ or something.

Luke: No idea. Did you check online?

James: Yeah, but it’s gone. Looks like it was shut down years ago.

James: The file was encrypted when I opened it. Had to dig up an old version on Emule just to read it.

Luke: What were they talking about?

James: Normal stuff at first—hanging out, movies, dumb shit.

Luke: And then?

James: Then this… really strange person shows up.

Luke: Who?