It wasn't a person walking by. It was too fast, too erratic. The patrons didn’t notice. Only the digital log recognized the shift in light.
The date and timestamp (February 3, 2023, at 1:50 PM) felt too specific to be random, yet too mundane to be immediately important. For Detective Elias Thorne, it was just another data point in a cold case file that had gone nowhere for three years. 2023-02-03-13-50-00.mp4
"You weren't taken, Sarah," Elias whispered to the empty room. "You were pulled." It wasn't a person walking by