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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 25 : Serpa
The official report said the Chorus servers were
scrubbed.
Carolina didn’t believe it.
For days she combed through corrupted files,
most of them noise, until she found it. A metadata
tag buried in a file labeled wine-inventory-final2.xlsx.
That “final2” quirk.
Serpa’s old habit.
The tag contained GPS coordinates.
Rural Portugal.
She borrowed a delivery van from an archivist
friend. Half a day later she reached a weathered
estate half-swallowed by vineyards.
No guards. Just a rusted gate creaking in the
wind. Yet something in the air felt wrong. The
sterile hum of Chorus tech. Electricity pretending
to be silence.
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