CHAPTER 126Camryn's POVThree days passed in a rhythm of study and surveillance.I spent my mornings examining Eugene's device, mapping the modifications Julian had described, and working backward through the mathematical principles that governed anomaly-host integration. My afternoons were spent in the research wing, where Julian encouraged me to observe the integration process and speak with the researchers.They were true believers, every one of them. Dr. Chen, the young woman whose credentials I'd borrowed, spoke passionately about giving people choices in how they evolved. Dr. Karim, an older man who'd lost his family to anomalies, saw integration as humanity's only path to survival. Even the junior researchers, barely out of the Academy, had convinced themselves they were saving the world.It would have been easier if they'd been monsters. Instead, they were people who'd rationalized atrocity into altruism.On the third evening, Julian summoned me to his office."You've been pr
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