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The ghost couldn’t hear him. It was just data. A loop. A habit.

Leo plugged the Viewer into the controller’s expansion port. The tiny screen flickered to life, displaying not a game, but a grainy, first-person perspective of Sam’s old save file in Minecraft . He could see the pixelated wooden house they’d built together. The cobblestone chimney. The sign by the door that read: “Leo’s & Sam’s Fort.” gamepad viewer

But then it did something Leo had never seen before. The character walked to the edge of a cliff that overlooked a lava lake. It stood there. For thirty seconds. A full minute. The ghost couldn’t hear him

But tonight, Sam was still playing.

And Leo was still watching.