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Lena looked at me, then at Bunny. "He's not sad anymore," she said.

And for the first time in a long time, that felt like enough. gcadas

Ines zoomed out. The map showed a single residential unit in the Gray Boroughs, a low-rent district where reality had always been a little thin. "It's not a person. It's a child's toy. An old heuristic doll—pre-Fall tech. Someone reprogrammed it. Badly." Lena looked at me, then at Bunny

Ines's voice came through my earpiece: "Kaelen… what did you say to it?" Lena looked at me

The air in the room chilled. On the wall, a photograph of Lena and a smiling older woman began to weep—actual tears leaking from the printed faces.