He was a pragmatic man, an engineer who had worked on signal processing for Doordarshan. So when he found a file on his desktop labeled Shekhar.Home.S01.1080p.HEVC.x265 , he assumed it was a corrupted backup of old family videos.

It started small—the ceiling fan rotating in empty rooms, a cup of tea appearing cold on the veranda, the old radio tuning itself to a station that played only static and one name: "Shekhar... Shekhar... come home."

That night, he didn't sleep. Instead, he watched the log update in real time—typing out his own movements from the future. At 3:14 AM, it showed him walking to the bathroom mirror and asking a question he hadn't yet thought of.

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At 3:14 AM, he went to the mirror. The log had been right.