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Chapter 76: The Confession

Author: Sparkee
last update publish date: 2026-04-29 21:36:36

Daveson looked at his hands again. The shaking from yesterday was gone. His hands were perfectly steady now, which struck him as a peculiarity of how the body worked, that it could fall apart over a threat and hold perfectly still while you dismantled yourself in front of someone you loved.

"I came here to finish what he started," he said. "I'd been working on it for two years before I got the position. I have documentation. I have the things he built, and I have what I built on top of them, an
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