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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 7:
The Silent Scream
The city was quiet, but it wasn't peaceful. It was the
silence of a fever breaking, leaving behind an
exhausted body.
The markets had been frozen for three days. The
banks were shuttered. The news channels ran
perpetual, bland public service announcements
because every anchor refused to speak without
running the risk of instantly exposing their network’s
bias and personal political donations through The
Gaze.
Henry, Vincent, and Lina had moved out of the hot,
cramped basement. They relocated to an abandoned,
high-ceilinged community center, preferring the cold
emptiness to the suffocating paranoia of the tunnels.
They were heroes, yes, but they were also the architects
of the world's most painful truth. Nobody was
celebrating. They were hiding.
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