Valya---piece-5.avi -

“Home is where they stop asking questions,” she said.

It was a warning.

It sat in a forgotten folder on an old external hard drive, buried under years of tax documents and obsolete drivers. The timestamp read December 12, 2009. Three dots, two dashes, and a number. Valya---Piece-5.avi

Curiosity outweighed logic. I plugged it in. “Home is where they stop asking questions,” she said

And Piece-5 wasn’t an answer.