She increased the ambient cortisol levels slightly, a trick she’d patented to sharpen focus. The next morning, the group woke groggy and irritable. Brother Cassian relapsed—not into drink, but into a frenzy of cleaning. He scrubbed the glass walls for eight hours straight.

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The volunteers did not cheer. They did not ask for news of the outside world. They simply made room for her at their fire.

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