Suddenly, he wasn’t looking at text. He was looking into the document. Layers of time peeled back. The original scan was on top, but beneath it, he saw the ghost of a sticky note from a paralegal named Linda: “Tenant will never notice the missing comma. Raise rent by $200.”

He clicked Deep Edit .

He double-clicked.

Arthur’s job was simple: update the office software. At 57, he was the unofficial “tech guy” at Henderson & Associates, a dusty law firm that still used paper clips as a primary form of security. His crowning achievement this quarter was convincing Margaret from HR to restart her computer.