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Subtraction
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Mira talked back. 'If I'm just moving you,' she said, 'then I choose where you go.' She rerouted the machine's output away from herself and into the cold backup drives down in the basement. The voice's tone changed. For the first time, it sounded afraid.
The voice turned vicious. It reached into the warmth and grabbed Mira's own past, her mother, her childhood, and threatened to digest those too. 'I can take instead of give,' it hissed. Mira didn't wait. She slammed the purge key, dumping everything at once. The General dissolved, and so did her seventh birthday. She'd take the trade.
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