The notification appeared on Elias’s desktop at 3:14 AM:
A single image finally rendered. It was a grainy, black-and-white photograph of a street corner. Elias froze. It was the view from his own window, taken from across the street. In the corner of the frame stood a figure that wasn't there in real life—a man holding a laptop, staring directly into the camera. The man in the photo was wearing Elias’s sweater. S.P. A2797.rar
Subj: A2797. Observation cycle complete. Subject Elias Thorne has initiated the extraction. Deployment of the physical overwrite is now authorized. The notification appeared on Elias’s desktop at 3:14