That night, his Filmora timeline opened itself at 3:00 AM. A new effect, one he hadn’t dragged, was now applied to every clip in his hard drive—even the non-video files. Its name:

His blood went cold. He had left the door unlocked last Tuesday. He’d forgotten until now.

That’s when he noticed the pack’s hidden readme file, buried in the metadata. A single line: “These are not effects. These are permissions. Every camera sees the world. This pack lets the world see back. Delete after 3 uses.” Leo had used three.