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He opened the folder. Inside was a single RAW file. He hit 'D' to jump into .

Elias didn't turn around. Instead, he grabbed the . With trembling fingers, he set the Exposure to +5.00 and painted over the shadow figure on the screen.

Behind him, the room erupted in a blinding, searing white light. When Elias finally gathered the courage to turn around, the room was empty. The door was still locked. Adobe Lightroom Classic v10.1.1

The image was a landscape of the very street outside his window, but the lighting was impossible—a deep, violet sunset that hadn't happened yet. In the center of the frame stood a figure. Elias zoomed in to 100%. It was him, standing on the curb, holding a camera he didn't own yet, looking directly into the lens with an expression of pure terror.

Panic rising, he checked the metadata. Exposure: 1/500. Aperture: f/2.8. But the "Camera Model" field was a string of binary code. He opened the folder

He clicked into the Library module. Today’s task was a mundane wedding shoot, but his hand slipped on the jog wheel. The grid view scrambled, pixels dancing like static, before settling on a folder that shouldn't have been there. It had no name, just a date: . That’s today, Elias thought, his heart skipping.

He turned back to the monitor. The folder was gone. Lightroom v10.1.1 sat idle, showing only the catalog of the morning's wedding. But when he looked at his own reflection in the darkened glass of the monitor, his eyes were no longer brown. They were the same impossible violet as the sunset in the photo. Elias didn't turn around

Should we explore a where Elias discovers what that violet light actually did to him, or