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The engineer’s screen flickered. Not a glitch—a greeting .

The pop star’s vocal track was gone. In its place, a single MIDI clip. One note: C1. Velocity: 127.

“Don’t,” Chris warned, but his eyes glittered. Native Instruments - Battery 4 Factory Library -BATTERY-.186

Kael’s hand hovered over the final pad. Pad 186.

“Pad 187 is almost finished. When do you want to record your death?” The engineer’s screen flickered

“Chris?” Kael whispered. Chris Rust had died in a studio fire in 2009. Legend said he’d been tuning a kick drum when a transformer blew.

And every night, when Kael closes his laptop, he swears he hears a faint, dry voice from the closed session files whisper: ” Chris warned

A voice, dry as a dead microphone.