The video ended.

Leo reached for the delete key. But his hand didn't move. Not because he was afraid. Because something was gently, patiently, holding his fingers in place. And in the periphery of his vision, the frozen frame of Aris's mouth was no longer frozen. It was moving. Forming a new word.

He had watched it for four minutes. Tops.

She turned back to the camera. Her face was calm, but tears were cutting clean tracks down her cheeks.

He pressed play again.

But that was wrong.

He double-clicked.