Elias looked at the file list. His heart hammered against his ribs. There, at the bottom of the folder, sat a hidden, ghosted icon: 525_3_RP.part3.rar .

The notification on Elias’s screen was the first sign of life from the Deep Archive in three years: Download Complete: 525_3_RP.part2.rar .

A scientist appeared, looking directly into the camera. "If you are reading this," she whispered, "Part 2 contains the coordinates. Part 1 contains the key. But you must never find Part 3."

He reached for the mouse, knowing that once he extracted the final piece, the story of what happened at Aether-RP would be complete—and his own story might be over.