He hadn't created that file.

Elias held the carving under his desk lamp. The grain flowed like muscle. The beak was sharp enough to draw blood. And on the underside, etched into the base in a font he had not programmed, were two lines of text:

The interface loaded in a way that felt too smooth. The wireframe grid appeared, then the toolbars, then—strangely—a small text box in the corner that read: "Last opened: 2014-11-03 02:47 AM. File: 'Kestrel_Final_v7.jdp'."