Dawn was four hours away. And the Reverse file was not on her computer.
The screen flickered, then resolved into a stark command prompt. RITUAL SUMMON GAME v1.01 Select your role: [1] Vessel [2] Witness [3] Sacrifice Maya laughed nervously. "Game, right." She chose [2] Witness. Safer. Observational. File- Ritual-Summon-Game-v1.01.zip ...
No installer. Just a single executable icon: a black circle inside a triangle. She clicked. Dawn was four hours away
The laptop’s screen went black. Then white. Then a single line of text: Summoning successful. You are no longer the Witness. A crash from the living room. The hand mirror lay shattered, but the pieces weren't on the floor. They were floating, rotating slowly, each shard holding a different reflection: her kitchen, her bedroom, a hallway she didn't recognize, and one shard that showed her—but she was screaming. RITUAL SUMMON GAME v1