The Ten Seconds Before the Fireworks Went Dark

“Mia, get down!” he shouted, and ran. His phone lit again before he reached her. Not Grace this time. An unknown number had sent him a three-second video. It showed the switch cabinet he had just opened. The camera angle was wrong, as if it had been shot from inside the box looking out. At the bottom of the video, auto-generated subtitles appeared: `Target acquired. Phase two begins now.` Elias froze in place. Someone was watching him. Someone had known he would come. And whatever this was, it was only getting started.