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"Come on," Elias hissed, wiping sweat from his forehead with a trembling sleeve. "I don't have time for this." Nokshi Standard Font
He tipped the box over onto the desk. Out tumbled a Zip drive, a Serial mouse, and a tangle of coiled wires. And there, hooked through the center of a dusty CD-ROM like a ring on a chain, was the dongle.
It was an ugly thing—a translucent blue brick of plastic, about the size of a matchbox, with a USB connector on one end.
PLEASE ATTACH YOUR DONGLE AND RESTART THE SOFTWARE.
Elias grabbed it. His hands were shaking so badly he nearly dropped it. He jammed it into the port.
Miles away, deep beneath the city, ancient gears groaned and turned. The water levels in the drains began to recede.
Clunk.