Then, the screen flickered. A single line of text appeared in a terminal she hadn't opened:

NOT TODAY, DETECTIVE.

She dove into the hiberfil.

But as she reached for the circuit breaker, she noticed her own laptop—running Windows 11—had just created a file she’d never seen before.

It was digital necromancy. And someone had learned to exploit it.

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