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Leo’s throat tightened. “Who?”
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Leo understood. The “empty neural slot” was his own mind. Mira was asking him to let her in. Not as a file. As a passenger. Leo watched as the Dell’s hard drive light
The Dell beeped. A new prompt appeared: