Morning came on with the thin light of a hospital corridor—sterile and too honest. We gathered in the control room without announcing it, as if our bodies remembered the choreography better than our minds: Victor checking the time, Marco already wired into his screens, Leo with coffee he wouldn’t drink, Elise with a tote that could fix a small war, Jennifer leaning near the door like she owned the air. Lena came last, blue coat, messenger bag, and a steadiness in her step that had been rehearsed into her bones.“This is the last handoff,” Marco said, no preamble. “We don’t need them to print. We need them to say it.” He lifted the tiny recorder from a velvet tray, the capsule so small it looked imaginary. “We go for voice today, not pixels.”Elise held out a hand; Lena gave her the lapel of the coat. Elise’s hands were warm, professional, almost ceremonial as she fixed the wire into place—two points of contact sewn between lining and seam, a whisper of copper laid flat like a secret v
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