Elias reached for the power button on his PC, but his hand stopped. On his screen, the digital Elias was also reaching for a power button. If he turned it off, did the city disappear? Or was he the one being downloaded?
He used the Orbit Navigation controls he knew from sites like Sketchfab , panning across glass skyscrapers that looked too sharp to be digital. He zoomed in, expecting the textures to blur into pixels. They didn't. He saw a coffee cup on a bistro table. He saw a newspaper caught in a digital breeze. Then he saw the person.
He didn't click. Instead, he opened the "Drawing Tools" in the corner, similar to map2model.com, and selected the 'Rectangle' tool. He drew a small park where a vacant lot stood in his real neighborhood.