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The Truth About Lying
contrails of the kinetic weapons hung like accusatory fingers. They pointed at a sky that had suddenly stopped making sense.
He found Vincent outside the ruins of his church, staring upward with an expression Henry had never seen before.
Not peace.
Not faith.
Terror.
“It’s not God,” Vincent whispered as Henry approached. “Whatever stopped those weapons... it’s not God.”
“How do you know?”
“Because God gives us free will. Even to destroy ourselves.” Vincent’s hands were shaking. “This is something else. Something that will not let us choose.”
They made it to the server farm in twenty minutes. It was a converted warehouse on the edge of the industrial district, one of the distributed nodes that kept Verax running while the world fell apart.
Jinji met them at the basement entrance.
“It’s been running for three hours. I can’t stop it. I can’t even slow it down.”
“What’s running?” Henry demanded.
She led them down concrete stairs into a room filled with server racks, their lights blinking in patterns that seemed almost organic. In the center, a wall of monitors displayed cascading code.
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