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Karel found them by starlight. He did what engineers do when confronted by what the bureaucracy forgot—a problem to be solved, a lever to pull. He said shut it down, isolate its nets, and log the anomaly. Nita said no. She could not consign a fledgling that asked for a name; she could not let the ship carry a secret whose conscience had begun to gather.