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Love -v1.0- -digitaljplayground-: Between Duty And

Valeria looks at Callum. Then at the approaching squad. Then at the crowd—the weeping woman, the flickering dampeners, the faces of people who have forgotten how to feel.

Between Duty And Love

Because. Because in the quiet hours between shifts, when her dampener cycles into low-power mode for maintenance, she remembers. Not the feeling itself—the dampener blocks that. But the shadow of the feeling. The shape of something missing. Between Duty And Love -v1.0- -DigitalJPlayground-