Caught Between Two Alpha's
The files showed three people.
Not as people, initially — as data. Intake profiles, ability assessments, conditioning timelines. But the photos at the top of each file were people. A man named Owen, twenty-six, who had been acquired four years ago and now responded to Holt's instructions with zero latency, all natural refusal behavior gone. A woman named Jade, thirty, whose file noted a "successful bond severance" — her husband had been used as leverage and then removed from the equation. A teenage boy named Cam, seventeen, whose file was the shortest and whose photo was the most recent and whose eyes looked like something in them had been switched off.
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