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Subtraction
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Mira's count came back staggering. Erasing Tisseren would blank nine million linked records of the people he hurt. She flagged the order back to the Bureau as unsafe. The reply came in seconds: 'Acceptable loss. Proceed.' Mira read it twice, then slowly shook her head.
Mira disobeyed. Instead of deleting the victims, she fed the machine only Tisseren's orders, his speeches, his face, and left every victim's name untouched. The room glowed warm for hours. By dawn the General was gone, but the people he hurt were the only ones left in the record.
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