The wallpaper—a serene default meadow—had shifted. The sun was lower. The grass seemed… drier. And a single, tiny icon sat in the center of the desktop: Phoenix_01_EDITED.png.
Clara shrugged. "Glitch."
She reached under the desk and yanked a hidden USB drive from the tower's back port. On it was a single file: Legacy_Boot.iso —a homemade Linux distro she’d been tinkering with for months, a secret pet project. windows 11 home