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Chapter 124: Inside the System (Sage POV)
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2026-04-15 13:00:26The wrong address bothers me more than it should.
I'm sitting at my archive terminal with Kira's text on my personal phone beside the keyboard and I keep coming back to it between pulling utility records, the woman in the dressing gown who has lived at that address for three years, which means the address in the contractor vetting system was either entered incorrectly fourteen months ago, or it was entered incorrectly on purpose. Randy Peterson has been a MediSupply emplo
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