Chapter 7 · free to read
Eleven days ago she had blown Vale's clinic doors in. She arrived at the pump-house unarmed, which was the only apology available to her.
Witness class. Three weeks before she joined them, Rec-Zero had seen something worth removing, and the Board had removed it, and then hired the hole it left.
She had spent twenty years taking memories out with instruments built to take memories out. Nobody had ever built the other instrument, because nobody had ever wanted one.
It took nine minutes. Afterwards she sat on the gantry for an hour without speaking, which Vale recognised, because she had done exactly the same thing on a sky-office floor.
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