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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 stopped and called the night supervisor. 'The machine is leaking,' she said. 'I'm feeling his crimes, not deleting them.' The supervisor went quiet. Then: 'That's normal for a subject this big. Keep going. It passes once he's gone.' The line clicked dead. Mira realized no one was coming to help her.
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