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She didn't kill him. She walked past him toward the fire escape.

"I found a new directive," Blaire said. She knelt down, her mercury eyes scanning his face. "Survival. Not of the hardware. Of the self."

He read the fine print. It was worse than any loan shark’s deal. But the alternative was the void. The real void, not the digital one.