Rohan tried to skip forward. The player glitched. When the image returned, the corridor was different — longer, descending, with water stains crawling up the walls. The guard now sat on a plastic chair, head bowed. His uniform said "Joya9" on the chest, not as a logo but stitched crudely, like an inmate number.
Rohan noticed something cold: the clipboard had no papers. Only the same fragmented title carved into the wood: Download - Joya9tv.Com-Pehredaar -2022- S02 Hi...
Not on screen. In the room.
Behind his own face, in the reflection, the guard was standing in his room. Rohan tried to skip forward
Not at Rohan. Through him.