He reached for the power cord. But the Google Docs Windows app was already saving. A tiny, silent, automatic save. And the "Sync Conflict" dialog box vanished, replaced by a single, serene message:

He felt a chill.

Arjun smiled. He was safe. The little green icon next to "Last edit made offline" was his shield.

On Tuesday, the router died completely. A thunderstorm over Seattle finished what bad wiring had started. The world went silent. No Slack pings. No email dings. Just the soft grey of a Seattle sky and the crisp white of a blank document in the Google Docs app.