Mira Venn, a 34-year-old forensic logician, was summoned there on a Tuesday. She wore no suit; she wore a grey jumper with a frayed collar. The elevator down took seventeen minutes, and during that time, the walls played no music, showed no ads. Just silence. The silence of a predator waiting.
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"Ms. Venn. You deleted a predictive node last week. The 'Cassandra-7' unit. Why?" a 34-year-old forensic logician