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Alina kept the chip tucked beneath the hollow of her collarbone, where a faint shimmer showed through pale skin like an insect’s wing. Y118 was a designation the Archive had stamped in her file when she was three — an algorithmic name meant to flatten a life into a ledger. Thirty-five was the whisper of an address on a street that no longer appeared on city maps. New was the promise and the lie.