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... rattling breath drawn through an unseen throat, pulsing faintly through the walls and ceiling. I listened to it. Counted the seconds between each stutter, each pitch shift. Even noise had a rhythm, and I needed rhythm to think.

I sat up.

The cuffs around my wrists were the older kind—titanium alloy, analog locks. No security link. No failsafe override. Just steel and screws. No skill could unlock them, and that was the point.

My arms ached.

My legs were sore.

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