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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 tried to bargain. 'The backups will be found. Someone will read me, and I'll wake up whole.' Mira nodded. 'Maybe. But not in me, and not tonight.' She finished routing every file to the cold drives, then sealed the drive bay with her own code. The warmth left the room. She walked out with him locked behind her.
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