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He didn’t close it. He couldn’t.

Or rather, he would, once he got this portable version of Nero Express to run on his jury-rigged, air-gapped laptop.

He double-clicked the executable.

A cheerful chime. A dialog box: “Would you like to make another copy?”

The cursor blinked on a cracked laptop screen, its pale light the only thing pushing back the dust-thick darkness of the basement. Leo wiped his glasses on his shirt for the hundredth time, then squinted at the file name again: