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Kaelen laughed. “Sounds like a gift.”

He opened his eyes. Jun stood in the doorway, watching. Hooked On -v3- By Heso-10-shunta-

“You didn’t take it,” she said.

“Shunta’s lab,” Jun said without turning. “Version 4 is in there. The final version.” Kaelen laughed

Kaelen stood at the door to Shunta’s lab. The injector in his hand was heavy. Jun’s words circled his skull like vultures. watching. “You didn’t take it

For the first time in three weeks, he imagined the rain. Not the data of it—the pH balance, the trajectory, the atmospheric pressure. Just the feeling. Cold on his cheeks. The smell of wet asphalt. The memory of being seven years old, splashing in a puddle, his mother laughing.