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Nicholas Boothman
Logan’s control slipped for the first time.
“She has asthma. When the power went unstable, her building lost heat and the backup system failed. I sat in my car three blocks away because emergency vehicles had the road sealed and the lifts were down. I couldn’t get to her.”
He looked at Jinji.
“For three hours, I waited for someone to tell me whether my daughter could breathe.”
Jinji lowered her hand from the jacket. “Is she all right?” Claire asked.
Logan nodded once.
“Because of what you did.”
The room changed again.
Henry hated how often truth did that. Shifted everything without asking permission.
Logan pointed at the monitors.
“You didn’t remove the risk. You made the system see another risk beside it. You let it weigh inaction.”
Jinji’s eyes narrowed.
“You’re not a programmer.”
“No. I’m worse. I’m a finance man. I know how truth gets shaped until action becomes possible.”
Henry said, “That’s exactly what Verax was supposed to stop.”
“And yet my daughter is breathing because you did it.” Silence.
Vincent stepped forward.
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