"Gotcha," she whispered.
CRITICAL: Controller CE9500B1 OFFLINE. Driver mismatch (0x7A3F).
She pulled up a text editor and frantically typed a new batch script. It wasn't a driver. It was a decoy—a fake telemetry stream that told the rogue driver the transformer was already on fire. The driver, following its kill logic, would attempt to "verify the kill" by polling a temperature sensor that didn't exist.
"No," she breathed, her blood turning to ice.