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Elena pressed her palm to the orb's surface.
"You're inside my last moment before they uploaded me," the child continued, kneeling to touch the soil. "I was seven. I had a disease that unspooled my neurons. They said the orb would save me. It didn't. It just made me immortal inside a single second of my life. Over and over." 3a6f6f3d-8a7a-42a8-9ddc-0c5ac89d6004 4 -NEW
No screaming. Only story.