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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 9: Jinji
Jacinta Borges de Castro is the third daughter of
a Lisbon banking dynasty stretching back 150
years. Raised among pearls and marble staircases,
Jacinta was never willing to play along.
She called her family phonies. At thirteen she
hacked the regional education authority’s student-
records system and wiped a teacher’s disciplinary
file as a joke. By sixteen she was taking freelance
coding jobs, never asking who was really paying.
That’s how Chorus found her. They called
themselves visionaries. She believed it. For two
years she built their tools.
Then she discovered the truth. The tools weren’t
for change. They were for control.
Betrayed and furious, she walked. She became
Jinji, a hacker, a graffiti ghost, and a street rebel
who swore never to be owned again.
Chorus didn’t let her go quietly.
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