The bar smelled of stale beer and ozone, a strange mixture that always reminded Elias of the early 2010s. He sat in the corner booth, nursing a whiskey, watching the rain streak against the window. Across from him sat a man who looked like a ghost—but then again, in this line of work, everyone was a ghost eventually.

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"Is it?" Elias slid a tablet across the sticky table. The screen was black, but a single line of white text pulsed in the center. "Then why is your signature popping up on the deep web forums again? Why are people whispering about the return of the 'World'?"

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