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He hadn’t touched that statue in months.

He almost swiped it away. Spam, probably. Another ghost alert from a server he’d forgotten he’d signed up for. But the preview image froze his thumb.

And his phone played one final sound: not a buzz, but a gavel strike.

His first instinct was to call the police. His second, smarter instinct was to check the source. wasn’t a number. It was a short code, the kind used by corporate marketing bots. But a reverse lookup showed nothing. No registered company. No domain. Just a dead link that redirected to a blank white page with a single line of text:

The video was only twelve seconds long. The man in the suit stood up, walked to Rohan’s bookshelf, and very deliberately tilted the Ganesha statue two degrees to the left. Then he turned toward the camera, leaned in close, and whispered in a voice that was half-static, half-human:

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