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Subtraction
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Mira started where the Bureau told her to: the early years. She picked the village massacre, the crime that made Tisseren famous. The room warmed. The file blurred and vanished. But the warmth didn't fade. It pressed against her skin, and for half a second she smelled smoke that wasn't there.
Mira pushed through the nausea and erased ten files in a row. The smoke smell got stronger. Then her own memories started to shift. She suddenly remembered giving the order for the massacre, the cold thrill of it, as if she had done it herself. She backed away from the desk, shaking, no longer sure who she was.
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