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“I lost my job because of you.”
He looked down.
“I’m sorry.”
“The company collapsed when Verax exposed the pension fraud.”
“I’m sorry,” he said again. “Don’t do that.”
He looked up.
“Don’t make your apology the end of it,” she said. “They were stealing from us. I’m glad they got caught. But I still don’t know how I’m going to feed my daughter.”
The baby shifted in her arms.
Henry had no answer.
The woman looked at him for another moment.
Then she said, “Truth came for them. The cost came for me.”
She walked away.
Henry stood in the cold long after she had gone.
When he returned to Jinji’s apartment, the others were asleep.
He sat at the computer and looked at the numbers. Fifty million users.
One hundred million flagged statements.
Ten thousand serious life disruptions.
A phrase designed by Jinji because catastrophe looked smaller when measured cleanly.
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