The Start menu didn’t reply. But for the first time in a month, the Wi-Fi icon showed Internet access .
She clicked .
It failed. Twice.
Then she noticed it. A tiny, almost invisible link at the bottom of the recovery screen: Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Command Prompt.
The script ran. Green text cascaded down the screen. One by one, across the dead continent, tiny LEDs flickered back to life. Streetlights. Radio towers. A single router in a hospital basement.