The download finished. He burned the ISO to a cheap Memorex DVD-R at 4x speed—slow and sacred. The disc hissed as it spun.

“You didn’t read the warning, Marco.”

ALEX IS HOME.

The comments were a graveyard of red usernames.

Marco laughed. He’d been modding since the Xbox 1 days. He’d installed Linux on a Dreamcast. He wasn’t afraid of some rogue bytecode.

The screen went black. The 360 powered off. The green ring died.