In the center of the image, the diner’s window was shattered. A black van—the same one currently idling at the red light outside his window—was mid-swerve.
The repair tool chirped. A single image file had been extracted from the corrupted mass. It wasn't a document or a video; it was a high-resolution render of a city street. Elias leaned in. He recognized the cracked pavement and the neon sign of the diner across from his office. GAm.7z.007
The file had been sitting in the "Incoming" folder of Elias’s workstation for three days. It was titled simply . In the center of the image, the diner’s