Elias leaned in. The website had disabled right-clicking. He could have explained five different workarounds—snipping tools, browser extensions, cloud captures—but he remembered his ten-second rule.

"Don't mock them," he said. "That 'stupid key' is the difference between losing a memory and keeping it forever."

But he didn't stop there. He showed her the modern secret: Windows Key + Shift + S . A silent, grey fog fell over her screen. Her cursor became crosshairs. She drew a box around just the orchid's watering schedule, and a small notification popped up: Screenshot saved to clipboard.

"The problem," Mrs. Abadi said, tapping the screen with a knobby finger, "is that I can't send her the picture of the plant. Not the photo from my camera—the picture on the screen. The instruction manual. It won't let me copy it."