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Mira kept going, faster now. Each file she fed the machine made the room hotter. Then a voice came out of the warmth, dry and amused. 'You're not deleting me,' it said. 'You're moving me. Into you.' She froze. The voice sounded exactly like the General.

Mira refused to believe a dead man's voice. 'You're just a glitch,' she said, and kept picking files. The warmth turned to real heat. The voice stopped arguing and started begging in the voices of his victims, dozens of them at once. She covered her ears and screamed until the room went silent.

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