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Cold War, Long Light
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Calder lets go of whatever was under the table. "You think the target is each other," he says. "It isn't. The second we're both fighting over belongs to someone else in this room." He nods toward the counter, where a tired woman is paying for tea and checking her watch.
Vesna refuses to believe him. "Nice story. You just want me to look away." She keeps her eyes on Calder and grabs her own device. But as she moves, the tired woman drops her cup. It shatters at exactly 2:15. The loop yanks hard, the cafe folds in on itself, and Vesna realizes too late she watched the wrong person.
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