They arrived back at Peak University that evening and immediately realized the campus had already processed Ghost Signal and formed a collective opinion about it.
The film was everywhere.
Students were watching it in the cafeteria between classes. Someone had connected a laptop to the media department's common room television, where the ending sequence was replaying on loop while people argued over favorite shots. A dedicated analysis group chat had already formed and somehow accumulated more than three hundred members in only a few hours.
The Film Arts faculty had apparently watched the short together that morning.
Their consensus, communicated through the carefully restrained enthusiasm unique to academics trying not to sound overly emotional, was that Ghost Signal was the strongest student production the department had produced in at least five years.
Possibly longer.
