Elias scrolled to the bottom of the document. There was a prompt waiting for an input: RESTORE PREVIOUS SAVESTATE? (Y/N)

The file arrived like a digital ghost in Elias’s inbox. No sender, no subject line—just a 12-kilobyte compressed archive that shouldn’t have existed.

He looked at the sky one last time. A massive "Error 404" was beginning to materialize across the moon. He pressed .