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Chapter 304: Nathaniel Destroys Them Quietly
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2026-02-19 18:46:23Nathaniel did not retaliate publicly.
That would have been expected.
Instead, he dismantled them in places no headline ever reached.
The first move happened before dawn. A dormant compliance review at Crosswell was quietly reopened, not by Nathaniel’s directive, but by an automated trigger he had embedded years earlier for situa
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