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The log file on his screen flickered. The last timestamp—the one for 3:17 PM—changed.

Elias frowned. That wasn't possible. Drives didn't have memories before the epoch. He navigated to the mount point manually, using a low-level disk editor. The directory wasn't empty. -pnp0ca0

Elias looked at the clock: 3:16 PM. One minute. The log file on his screen flickered