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Chapter 397

Author: Fanny S
last update publish date: 2026-04-11 23:36:14
Alicia's POV

The older man was still talking.

"Seven years," he said. "Four jurisdictions. We moved water infrastructure across borders that hadn't spoken to each other in a generation." His hands traced corridors in the air between us. "The archive is the proof it happened. That it worked." He tu
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