So she wrote a shim. A tiny ARM64 service that hooked the emulator’s memory mapping, trapped the self-modifying write, and redirected it to a clean, non-self-referential code cave she allocated in the x86 process’s address space. It was ugly. It was hacky. It worked.
No problem, Microsoft had promised. Windows 10 on ARM includes a transparent 32-bit x86 emulation layer. windows 10 arm 32 bits
Windows has a hidden event log for the ARM emulation layer. Most people don’t know it exists. Mira did. She opened and navigated to Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Emulation/Operational . So she wrote a shim
Until the Ghost developed a stutter.
What she saw made her lean closer.