A new figure stood in the corner of the image. Small. Blurry. Definitely not part of the original poster.

He reached for the mouse.

He never clicked.

But at 3:18 a.m., the wallpaper changed anyway. Now he was in it—standing beside the avatar, wearing a confused expression he didn't remember making.

The wallpaper had been on his laptop for three years. Jumanji: The Next Level — a frozen frame of Dr. Smolder Bravestone mid-leap, the mandrill-faced henchmen snarling below, the jungle canopy dissolving into a sandstorm above. Just a default image he’d grabbed from a free site. Nothing special.

At him .

The keyboard was warm now. Too warm. And somewhere, impossibly, he heard a rhino snort from inside the wall.

Then he noticed the small figure in the wallpaper again. It had moved closer. And it was waving.

But every night since, just before sleep, he hears distant drums—and a voice that whispers, "Your turn, player."