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Richard was sitting beside me, his summit suit wrinkled, his sleeves pushed to his elbows, and his hands clenched tight around the edge of his chair.
“You should’ve let someone else speak,” he said, his voice rough and frayed.
“How would that have changed anything?” My voice came out dry and low, but steady.
He looked at me for a long moment, searching for something, but he didn’t answer.
Simon arrived minutes later. His face was tight and pale, and he looked like he hadn’t slept at all.
“Your system didn’t resist the pulse,” he said, already pulling up data on his tablet. “It responded to it, actively.”
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