The keyboard glowed red. A new message on screen: "User detected. Proxy authorized. Speak the Word of Unmaking."
The screen flickered, not with static, but with ancient script. Elias rubbed his eyes. He’d downloaded the "Power Geez Keyboard for PC" as a joke—a digital relic for typing the classical Ethiopian Ge'ez script. He was a translator of dead languages, but this keyboard claimed to do more than just type.
He turned off the PC's power supply.
The power of Geez, he decided, belonged back in the stone obelisks and the dusty manuscripts. Some words were never meant to be convenient.
Elias ignored it. Greed, curiosity, and a terrible loneliness drove his fingers. He typed "Open" — ክፈት.
The screen died. The rift slammed shut. The keyboard went dark—just a cheap plastic device with strange letters. The thing's final shriek was cut off like a snapped string.