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32: The Poisoned Well
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2025-10-26 11:50:07The attack came not with a bang, but with the silent, deadly efficiency of a poison seeping into a well. It targeted the very heart of Catherine's ambition, the project that was meant to be her legacy: the Aegis Project. The first sign of trouble appeared as a single, flagged email in Catherine's inbox at 7 AM. It was from a company called "Geo-Synthetics," the sole global supplier of a hyper-specialized polymer crucial for the Aegis armor's energy-dampening layers. The email was curt, citing
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