The progress bar appeared. It moved about an inch, then froze. The screen flickered.

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Just this once, he told himself. I just need to finish the wire routing. Once the license server is fixed, I’ll wipe it.

The neon sign above the server room flickered, casting a jittery, sickly green light across Elias’s workspace. Outside, the city of Detroit was asleep, but inside the cramped office of Apex Automation, the air was thick with the smell of stale coffee and the high-pitched whine of overworked cooling fans.