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She laughed, a dry, cracked sound. “I’m always tired.”

Outside, the city was a bruise of neon and rain. She walked for blocks before she realized she was crying. Not for what she’d destroyed. For what she’d finally, impossibly, made. brima models

A thing that chose to stay. A thing that chose to love her silence. She laughed, a dry, cracked sound

She left the chip on the table.

A long pause. The lab’s air filtration whirred. cracked sound. “I’m always tired.” Outside

Orion smiled. Not a programmed curve of lips, but something slower, sadder, utterly real.

She set the glass down. Her reflection warped in the chrome of its chest plate—a hollowed woman with too many late nights in her bones.