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"Asset transferred?" Elias scrambled for his phone to check his bank balance via the bank's app. His hands shook. He typed in his password.

SiliconGhost.

He hit Enter.

Buying it legitimately meant waiting for shipping or fighting with a broken payment portal that his bank had inexplicably blocked. The torrent was the nuclear option.

It was counting upward.

User does not exist.

He turned back to the Mac screen. The Quicken application was closing on its own. The window dissolved, and the desktop background—which he had set to a photo of his late mother—flickered. The image warped, the pixels twisting until it became a screenshot of his own face, taken from the webcam a moment ago. He looked terrified, caught in the glow of the screen.