🖤Alexander 🖤I looked at him for a moment.And then I said the only honest thing I had.“None of this makes sense,” I responded instead.Because it didn’t.It genuinely, completely did not make sense, and I needed someone else to sit inside that fact with me for a second before I could start building the logical framework around it, because my brain was doing that thing it did sometimes where it kept running the same calculation over and over and kept arriving at an answer that wasn’t possible.Papa’s eyes stayed on mine, patient, waiting.“I used the Kira bead on them before I left for the conference,” I said, crossing my arms and dropping my voice low enough that only he could hear me, because this was not a conversation for hospital hallways and whatever ears might be attached to the walls. “I checked all four of them the night before I flew out for the conference, and the readings were completely clean, Papa… nothing flagged, nothing off, everything exactly where it was supposed
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