A notification sound chirped—the sharp, bright ring of a completed task. The zero-byte file had finally unzipped. But it hadn't unpacked music. It had unpacked her.

The last thing Leo heard wasn't a synth-pop melody. It was the sound of a zipper closing, right behind his ear.

The link he finally found was buried in a thread from 2012. It was a simple, unadorned line of blue text: download_sofiaaaaaaa.zip.