Her own heart skipped.
And the one ffmpeg could never re-encode.
The terminal did not process. Instead, the log spat back:
The moment Claire learned Malva was pregnant with Jamie’s child.
The log scrolled faster. Faster.
“We’re not in the stream anymore,” she said. “We’re in the encode.”
[Parsed_eq_0 @ 0x6000b7a2c] Error: No such filter: ‘redemption’
A dry run. No output. Just the parser reading every frame, every mistake, every flinch in Malva’s confession, every lie wrapped in a B‑frame.