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365. What Aurora Absorbs.
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2026-08-14 16:27:00Sage.
The heat started three hours after the bond network collapse, once the terminal had gone quiet and Nessa had finally convinced me to lie down on the workshop cot instead of standing back up.
At first I told myself it was fever. Ordinary exhaustion, the kind that came after absorbing three hundred an
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