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“Don’t do it, Leo,” whispered Maria, the only other soul in the lab. She was hunched over a textbook on neural networks. “Whatever sketchy ISO you’re about to download… just don’t.”

He pulled a USB drive from his pocket. It was black, unlabeled, and looked like it had been through a washing machine. “My roommate’s cousin works in Redmond. He gave me this. It’s an internal build of Windows 8—NT 6.2, developer branch. ‘Windows NT 6.2 Download,’ it says on the sticky note.”

HOST DETECTED. HEAP OFFLINE. PAGING TO HUMAN MEMORY.

Then it typed a message on its own:

Silence.

“What?” Leo’s voice cracked.

“Heap allocation successful.”

Maria pulled the power cord.