He double-clicked the file. His extraction software hummed, demanding the remaining parts. As he linked the second, third, and fourth files, the progress bar crawled forward.

The file sat on the desktop like a digital ghost: Overwatch.7z.001 .

Overwatch.7z.001 was no longer 5GB. It was growing. 6GB... 10GB... 50GB. It was consuming his hard drive, filling the empty sectors with data that shouldn't exist. He pulled the plug. The monitor died instantly.