He clicked the silver raven one last time. The dashboard now showed a single, reassuring line of text:

A new notification popped up from the system tray:

Panic hit. He tried to open Task Manager to kill the process. The window opened, but it was blank. No processes. No performance data. Just a single line at the top: RAV is currently managing system resources.

Leo looked down at his mug. The steam had just stopped rising. He took a shaky sip.