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Nicholas Boothman
They sat around a heavy oak table. For a few minutes, they stayed on the surface. Vincent asked if he had any trouble finding the place. Henry asked about the crowd gathered outside. Vincent explained that the "dinner rush" usually started two hours early when the wind picked up off the river.
"Claire says you're looking to build something," Vincent said finally, setting his mug down with a thud. "Something to stop the world lying.”
“Good old Claire. Yes, not just stop it, I want to burn it down. I spent half my life as a high-priced hitman for the corporate conscience. But I didn’t use bullets—I used bullshit. And I was the best there was. And forty-seven people are dead because I taught their killers that the truth is negotiable.
"The world isn't going to stop lying because people suddenly decide to be good," Jinji said.
"It's going to stop because of this.” She reached into her pocket and dropped a small packet onto the table.
"Verax. Latin for 'truth-teller'. It's a perfect name because I’ve essentially created a cure for lying that turns the human nervous system into its own judge.
Henry felt the hair on his arms stand up. He knew that shape, the subtle, raised circle against the skin. It was a V-7 Life-Link Patch he’d helped put on the map.
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