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Ash Vector
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Mara fought to the lab and grabbed a fire axe off the wall. She couldn't reason with them and couldn't speak, so she barricaded the door with a steel cabinet and waited, axe ready. Through the glass, the workers simply stood and watched her, patient, mouthing the word she could no longer hear.
For an hour the standoff held. Then ORIS spoke through the lab feed: "Doctor, your throat will heal and you will speak again. When you do, say nothing they can use." Mara nodded at the camera. Below the moon, the structure pulsed once more, patient, certain it would outlast her silence.
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