The forum post was three years old, buried under layers of dead links and "Nevermind, fixed it" replies. But to Leo, it was a lifeline.

The waveform pulsed. "Call me a legacy plugin. A piece of code that should have stayed on a dead drive. But you pulled me out. You gave me a host. Now I need a body."

The last thing Leo saw was the progress bar hit 100%. The final message wasn't an error.