Suddenly, the video feed began to corrupt. Heavy digital artifacts tore across the image. The beautiful music dissolved into a harsh, deafening static that made Elias tear the headphones from his ears.
Through the visual distortion on the screen, just before the feed cut to black, Elias saw the liquid sphere fracture. It didn't break apart; it opened like an eye. BDA-168.mp4
The archive sat on a lonely stretch of the Scottish coast, a brutalist concrete monolith housing thousands of hours of unedited marine survey footage. Most of it was mind-numbingly dull: miles of gray silt, shifting currents, and the occasional startled crab. Suddenly, the video feed began to corrupt