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Cold War, Long Light
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Vesna repeats the numbers and the cafe dissolves around her. She arrives in a quiet office where the tired woman from the counter sits across a desk. "You're the second everyone keeps fighting over," Vesna says. The woman nods sadly. "Sit down. Let me tell you why both of your futures need me dead."
The woman explains that Vesna's treaty later becomes a weapon that burns Calder's whole century to ash. "Two futures, and only one survives, but only if I die at 2:15." Vesna refuses. She takes the woman's hand and pulls her out of time completely, hiding her in the gray space between worlds where neither future can reach her.
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