So Elara wrote a Python script she called decant.py . It parsed the manifest, mapped each VFS path to a corresponding Wine bottle directory, and symlinked the binaries.

She didn’t correct him. She just smiled and closed her laptop.

She ran a test query. The database connector worked. The COM objects initialized. The audit log wrote to ~/continuum_bottle/drive_c/users/elara/AppData/Local/Continuum .