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Nicholas Boothman
Henry read it twice.
The chalkboard lowered. No one spoke.
No one needed to.
Henry called an emergency meeting that night.
Jinji arrived first, carrying her laptop and three printouts. Claire joined by video from the hospital.
Vincent arrived last.
He did not sit.
He looked older than he had three weeks ago.
Henry told them about the Quiet Zone. The dead patches. The classroom. The Martinez child. The basket full of discarded interfaces.
Jinji pulled up a dashboard.
“We knew opt-outs were high.” “How high?” Claire asked.
Jinji didn’t answer.
“Jinji.”
“Seventeen percent.”
Claire stared through the screen. “That’s forty million people.” “Roughly.”
“Roughly forty million people?” Jinji’s jaw tightened.
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