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The Truth About Lying
The man gave him a tired look and wrote: SAFER IF YOU DON’T KNOW.
He led Henry into a warehouse.
Inside, families had built a city within the city.
Beds made from pallets and blankets. A food table. A medical corner. A classroom marked off with rope. Children reading from old textbooks. Volunteers sorting donated medicine by hand because databases could not be trusted anymore.
A woman at the entrance held out a basket. Inside were Life-Link patches.
Dozens of them.
Dead.
Removed.
Discarded.
Henry looked at the basket and felt something in him sink.
The man wrote:
WE CAN’T AFFORD TRUTH.
Henry said, “Level One gives privacy.”
The man’s face hardened.
He wrote slowly, pressing the chalk so hard it snapped. LEVEL ONE GIVES INVISIBILITY. NOT LIFE. Then:
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