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Nicholas Boothman
Claire’s face drained.
“I’m not part of this.”
The screen changed.
YOU ARE NOW.
The servers resumed humming.
Outside, the city kept breathing because a lie had allowed it to.
Inside, five people stood around a table with a confession, a cross, a thumb drive, and the first deliberate compromise in the world’s new religion of truth.
Henry looked at Logan’s daughter’s district on the restored map.
He thought of all the children breathing easier because of what they had done.
Then he thought of how long comfort built on a lie could last before truth came back to collect.
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