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THE FOUNDATION

Author: Elektra Quill
last update publish date: 2026-03-21 15:07:55

PART ONE: THE VISION

9:34 AM - Moretti Operations Center, Conference Room

The woman sitting across from Aria was twenty three years old and had been rescued from a trafficking ring in Bangkok three months ago.

Her name was Anh. She'd been taken from Vietnam when she was nineteen, promised legitimate work, and instead had been sold into sexual slavery. She'd been forced to work sixteen-hour days, beaten when she resisted, medicated to keep her compliant.<
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