“Of course it’s a riddle,” Marina muttered, recalling Elias’s love for cryptic puzzles. The only “map” in Larkspur was the old town trail system. That night, under the cover of a crescent moon, they trekked into the woods. At the supposed end of a forgotten path, they uncovered a copper disk half-buried in leaves. Scanned with Jules’s phone, it revealed a 12-digit code: . Act III: The Storm Back in the server room, Marina typed the code into AccessFix 569’s login panel. The screen flared green: “ACTIVATION SUCCESSFUL.” The system rebooted, restoring the clinic’s vital databases just as the blizzard knocked out the power for hours.