After breakfast, and the appropriate amount of teasing and embarrassing photos, Anita, Max and Christopher left. Maggie finished her coffee and then she retrieved the laptop from her bedroom. She put it on the kitchen table and pressed the power button. The screen lit up with what looked like a bunch of system checks. One by one they finished and when the final one flashed a green “OK”, the words “Insert key to continue” appeared.

“I guess that’s the thumb drive,” Maggie said to the empty room. She pulled the two thumb drives out of a pocket on her backpack and plugged the second one into the computer. There was a beep and words on the screen changed to “Reading…” and then to “Connecting…”

Connecting to what?