He was a forensic data recovery specialist, the kind who pulled vacation photos off water-damaged phones and reconstructed payroll files from dead servers. His latest client was a hoarder: a retired systems architect named Dr. Aris Thorne who had stored his entire life—decades of research, journals, financial records, and encrypted diaries—on a homemade RAID array in his basement. The array had died a quiet, clicking death two weeks ago. Elias had been hired to resurrect it.

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