Leo reached out to delete the file, but his hand stopped. On the screen, a reflection appeared in the black pixels of the playback window. It wasn't his own face. It was a boy with bleached hair and glazed eyes, looking back at him from 2014, trapped in high definition, waiting for someone to finally breathe him in. Should this story lean more into psychological horror or remain a surrealist exploration of digital nostalgia?

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