Except he wasn't. He was in his apartment in Chicago. The dot showed a patch of empty Pacific Ocean, 800 miles west of Mexico.
The download took nine hours. When he mounted the disk image, the file structure was wrong. Not FAT32, not NTFS—some alien geometry of folders that looped back on themselves. Inside, a single executable: unfold.exe Nddn-w56 Map Disk Free Download
The screen blinked. Then a grayscale map rendered—not of any city he recognized. The streets curved like capillaries. The labels were coordinates without a known datum. And at the center, pulsing softly, a red dot labeled: You are here. Except he wasn't