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Brushfire on Europa
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They agreed to keep the secret and study it quietly, just the two of them. But back inside, Priya's company tablet pinged. A message from headquarters: "Odd readings detected at your site. Survey ship arriving in six hours." Their secret already had a clock on it.
Instead of hiding, they invited the company in carefully. When the survey ship arrived, Priya met them with a plan: study, don't mine. Some bosses grumbled about lost profit, but the discovery was too big to bury. Europa's glowing ocean became the most protected place humans had ever found.
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