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"Bullshit. I can hear it in your voice—that little uptick at the end when you're trying to sell something you don't believe. You taught me that tell, remember?" A pause. "You compromised Verax. You and whoever else is in this room with you right now."
Henry looked at Jinji and Vincent. Jinji was staring at him. Vincent's head was still bowed.
“What do you want, Logan?”
"I pulled the code diff," Logan answered, cutting straight to it. "I'm not a programmer, but I know enough to see what you did. “You didn’t remove the risk. You reframed it. Made inaction look worse than action.”Gave people a way to see that doing nothing was worse than doing something."
"That's a lie," Henry said. "It's a manipulation. It's everything Verax was supposed to prevent.”
"It's also why my daughter is still alive. So here's my question: are you going to do it again? Or was this a one- time thing?"
Henry looked at Jinji and Vincent. Jinji was shaking her head slowly. Vincent had opened his eyes and was watching Henry with an expression that might have been hope or horror.
"I don't know," Henry admitted. "We haven't talked about it."
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