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The Static Bloom

## The Static Bloom The salt-sting tasted like regret on Elias’s tongue. He hadn’t expected the air to *feel* this thick, not after weeks cycling through sterilization protocols. The retrieval ship’s bay doors hissed open, revealing a bruised violet sky…

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The Veridian Echo

## The Veridian Echo The delivery arrived on a Tuesday. Twelve identical boxes, each the size of a refrigerator, materialized at designated coordinates across the globe. No trucks, no planes, just… there. The receiving teams – engineers, technicians, a smattering…

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