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He expected a smoking gun, perhaps a scanned document or a incriminating screenshot. Instead, the image that filled his monitor was breathtakingly ordinary, which somehow made it worse.

In his line of work as a digital forensic recovery specialist, most files were mundane. They were spreadsheets of forgotten expenses, blurry vacation photos, or duplicates of tax forms. But this one was different. It sat alone in a partition that had been intentionally, aggressively corrupted. Someone had tried to burn this specific memory to the ground.