For Rebecca and Michael. Always Be You The air in the 42nd-floor office buzzed with the faint hum of holographic displays and soft chatter, but it all seemed to drift around Graydon Pallor like background noise. He stood stiffly at his workstation, arms crossed with his sharp gaze fixed on the offending object at the…

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