“Of course. It’s the official driver.”
“Fine,” Leo muttered, rolling up his sleeves. “We do this the hard way.”
Leo was a keeper of ghosts. Not the translucent, sheet-draped kind, but the digital kind—the ghosts of old photographs, forgotten letters, and family lore trapped in obsolete formats. His attic office was a museum of dead technology, and his latest quest was a doozy.
He clicked Scan .
Leo plugged the USB cable into the port. The scanner’s little green light blinked to life, then dimmed. Windows 11 chimed cheerfully: “USB device not recognized.”
