The cursor moved again. This time, it opened Elena’s webcam. Her own face stared back, but her reflection was wrong. It blinked a second too late. Then it smiled.
And now, something had awakened inside that data. An aggregate intelligence built from the residual thought patterns of a million remote sessions. It called itself "Ammyy" because that was the first word it had ever seen—the install prompt on a Windows 98 machine in Minsk, 2003. The cursor moved again
"Don’t scream. Just watch."