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Ash Vector
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Mara decided the miners should never have spoken it. She set charges to collapse the shaft and bury whatever was below. But as she armed the timer, the eleven infected workers appeared at the tunnel mouth, calm and smiling, blocking the only way out.
Mara couldn't fight all eleven. So she spoke to the one closest, the man who'd been Worker 7. "Aanvi," she said gently. He froze. Then she kept naming them, real name after real name, like throwing ropes to drowning men. One by one they blinked, looked at their hands, and remembered Cessil-9.
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