He thought about his mom checking his grades. About the history essay he’d spent six hours on. About the photos from his brother’s birthday.

The screen went black. A terminal prompt appeared: You have borrowed: 45 minutes of tomorrow morning. To play, rename any three files on C:\ to 'corvus.dat' before 6:00 AM. Alex laughed nervously. A prank, probably. He closed the game and went to bed.

“Download link in description,” the narrator said.

That afternoon, he opened the game again. LOAD was now available.