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But Arjun knew. And sometimes, late at night, when he closed his eyes, he still saw it: the perfect, impossible diagram of his own home network, sitting on a phantom canvas, with a single unknown device pulsing softly in the corner.

“New project,” she said. “Legacy datacenter migration for Meridian Trust. The existing diagrams are from 2009. They’re… creative interpretations of reality. You have three days to map the physical and logical topology.” microsoft visio portable

Arjun’s blood chilled. He tried to delete the shape. The delete key did nothing. He tried to move it off the canvas. It snapped back. He tried to close the program. The window closed, but the process remained in Task Manager, using 0% CPU, 0% memory, just… existing. But Arjun knew

He never found the drive. The Meridian Trust network restored itself from backups an hour later, with no sign of intrusion. The incident was written off as a "transient memory bus error." “Legacy datacenter migration for Meridian Trust