The thief smiled, and for the first time Mara saw the face fully: the woman in the lab coat. Her mask gone, hair loose, expression raw with a devotion that had nothing to do with experiments. She wrapped the child into her arms and the monitors flared red—an alarm keyed to some unseen security. The camera stuttered. Footsteps pounded. The feed jittered, then terminated with a static-snap that left the last frame frozen on the woman’s face, tears streaking down into lines of sweat, eyes wide as if she had just been given a miracle and a sentence at once.
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Mara handed her a thumb drive. The woman’s fingers closed over it with the care of someone handling an animal they did not fully trust. The thief smiled, and for the first time