Leo shrugged. “You can’t. No internet means you can’t download the driver. And you don’t have the original CD.”

“So fix it,” Arthur said.

His heart jumped. He slid the disc into the tray. The drive whirred to life, sounding like a jet engine spooling up. A window popped up: “Install Network Adapter Driver – Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller.”

“I had the disc,” Arthur said, and for the first time that week, he smiled. “Never throw away the disc.”