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Chassis No. Zero

The Shadow in the Rearview

Chapter 10 · free to read

Day one, he was at the tea stall. Day two, the platform. Day three, outside the office at both ends of the shift.

Eleven minutes early to the platform. Never the same coach. Never once looked at a phone while walking. Whoever had trained him had not trained him to be muscle.

Sixty metres of steel with a staircase at each end. There was no version of this that was an accident.

Eleven years of signals. Six years missing. A man who submitted expense claims to the rupee for people who did not read them.

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