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The Filing

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SERA

“She slept through the night.”

Kofi said it from the institute doorway at eight fifty on a Monday morning in January, and Sera looked up from the treatment access application because the way he said it told her the sleeping was significant and connected to something she needed to know.

“Amara,” he said. “Her mother sent a message at six this morning. First full night in eight months. She wanted us to know.”

Sera put the pen down.

Eight months since Amara had last slept through the nigh
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