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to gamble her life on a species that just spent the last month trying to destroy itself."
Henry closed his eyes. "I can't promise we'll pass. But I can promise that if we choose Extraction, we'll deserve to fail. Your daughter will grow up in a universe where humanity proved it couldn't be trusted with power. Where we chose self-preservation over everything we claim to value."
Silence on the line. Then: "I'm coming to whatever meeting you're organizing. But I'm bringing the Extraction numbers with me. If we can't build something better in seventy-two hours, I'm voting to save who we can."
"Fair enough," Henry said.
"And Henry? I hope you're right. I really, really hope you're right."
The line went dead.
Over the next six hours, they assembled a coalition in an abandoned convention center—the only space large enough to hold everyone. Hundreds of people, representing dozens of countries and disciplines, all united by the knowledge that they had less than three days to save their species.
But unity was fragile. The room quickly fractured into camps.
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