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Thomas stared at them, mouth hanging slightly open. “That is… that is the most strategically vacant reasoning I have ever heard in my professional life. ‘The ground feels honest’? ‘Enjoy the scenery’? You’re going into a Syndicate processing hub, not a Sunday picnic!”Thomas didn’t like what he was hearing. All he wanted to do was make the whole thing easy, and now Ma,rek and Lottie were trying to make it even harder.Tedmond didn’t laugh, but the corner of his eye twitched with the faintest shadow of a smile. He met Thomas’s gaze, the intensity of his stare anchoring the absurdity of the moment.“The air is monitored, Thomas,” Tedmond said evenly. “Every flight plan leaves a signature. But a car… a car is just one of ten thousand vehicles on the highway. We need to stay invisible, until the moment we choose not to be.”“Fine,” Thomas groaned, throwing his hands up. “Go ahead. Take the long way. Drive until your tires melt. I’ll stay here and try to keep the satellites from losing y
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The admission was more chilling than the anger.Thomas swallowed hard as he took in the shift in Tedmond. The desperation was gone, replaced by a cold, calculating resolve that felt far more dangerous.“Get inside,” Thomas muttered, stepping aside. “Albert’s been screaming at my monitors for the last hour. He found something in the Oakhaven intake logs… but he refuses to show it until you’re on the line.”Tedmond stepped into the warmth of the house, the smell of old wood and burnt coffee washing over him. He didn’t reach for a chair or a drink. He went straight to the monitors.“Albert,” Tedmond said evenly. “Tell me you have a visual on the woman they think is Molly Webb.”“I have something better, Master Tedmond,” Albert replied, his voice grim through the speakers. “I have the Oakhaven intake footage. But you need to see this. Someone else was waiting at the gate.”A pause.“Someone who didn’t care about her ID.”Tedmond leaned over the console, eyes narrowing as the grainy Oakh
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Hugo immediately held out his hand. “I—I was just trying to warm it up!” Hugo wailed, cowering as Marek loomed over him.Tedmond ignored the pathetic display, eyes fixed on the terminal Lottie had just bypassed.“Albert,” he snapped into his comms. “The image. Show me exactly who was loaded onto that medical shuttle.”“Uploading the freeze-frame from the sub-hangar camera now, Master Tedmond,” Albert replied.The screen flickered, then resolved into a grainy, high-contrast image. Two women were being hurried toward the shuttle by Enforcers. One wore the uniform of a Syndicate logistics officer… Molly Webb. The other wore a grey, nondescript shift, her face partially obscured by a fall of silver-blonde hair.Tedmond’s breath hitched. For a moment, his tactical shield nearly shattered. That hair.“Wait,” Lottie whispered, leaning closer. “Look at their wrists, Tedmond.”He saw it. In the chaos of the Scrub protocol, the Enforcers had been frantic. One woman had a yellow Asset band
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The others nodded in agreement.It was obvious he was being toyed with. At this point, Tedmond had no idea if his mother had ever truly been in the Heart. If she had, they would have found some trace of her, but there was nothing.Only the hollow mockery of an empty tower and a mannequin draped in the memory of a woman.He began to wonder if the Syndicate even knew where she was, or if she had been sent elsewhere, out of their hands entirely. Had they even known her real name? She wasn’t actually called Mill, that was a nickname he had adopted during the long, grueling years of the search, a word to anchor his hope.Then his eyes widened. He was making a mistake, a fundamental tactical error.She had lost her memory; she didn’t even know who she was.Even if the men knew he had come for her, there was no way they could identify her by name. She wouldn’t know she was a Washington, and she certainly couldn’t sign her name as one. To the world, and perhaps to herself, she was blank
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The secondary cooling tower was a brutalist spike of concrete and rusted iron, leaning out over the cliffside, isolated from the main facility. It had been designed to vent the Heart’s thermal energy, but as Tedmond, Lottie, and Marek sprinted across the connecting gantry, it was clear the tower was being repurposed for something far darker.The air grew colder, heavy with salt spray from the waves crashing hundreds of feet below.“Albert,” Tedmond barked into his comms. “Status on the tower’s structure.”“Not good, Master Tedmond,” Albert replied, his voice tight. “The Warden has initiated a Scrub protocol. He isn’t just venting gas… he’s triggered the explosive bolts in the foundation. The tower is standing on prayers and gravity alone. You have approximately seven minutes before it shears off the cliff.”“Seven minutes,” Tedmond repeated. He slammed a hand against the heavy blast doors at the base of the tower. It was locked.“Marek,” he commanded.Marek didn’t hesitate. He step
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The dates in the logbook didn’t merely align with history; they defied it.Tedmond’s thumb traced the ink on the most recent page. His breath hitched, the cold air of the cockpit suddenly feeling thin. The names scrawled in the Authorized Visitor column weren’t Syndicate officials. They weren’t names he recognized from the Board.The entries were coded, but the handwriting in the margin made his blood run cold. It was the elegant, sharp script of the woman who had taught him how to hold a pen.“Tedmond?” Lottie froze when she saw the color drain from his face. “What is it? Did you find the Board’s signatures?”“No,” Tedmond whispered, his voice sounding as though it came from a great distance. “Look at these signatures, Lottie. They aren’t people coming in to see her.”He turned the book toward her. The signatures under the Exit column for the last five years were all the same: M.W.“Is that the name, Mill Washington?” Lottie breathed, her eyes widening as she scanned the meticulo
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