Her heart stopped. She clicked.
But Emi smiled, clutching the paper crane. She finally understood.
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The search bar seemed to tremble. Then, the results appeared.
But Emi knew better.
She clicked the drop-down menu. All Categories.
The cursor blinked on the cracked screen of the library’s public terminal. It was 11:47 PM, seventeen minutes before the system would automatically purge the day’s search history. Her heart stopped
Emi took the crane. When she looked up, the woman in the yellow coat was gone.