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He tapped the vial like a metronome. “A reagent. Makes moisture behave. A chemical lullaby for clouds.”

Savannah kept the drive in her palm like a lit match. The car’s radio crackled with an emergency bulletin—coastal advisories, cresting tides in the estuary, requests to avoid low-lying roads. The language of officialdom tried to translate human terror into instructions. She felt the weight of it all: the file in her hand, the vial’s absence, the way the sky had listened and answered. HardX.23.01.28.Savannah.Bond.Wetter.Weather.XXX...

“You know her?” Savannah asked.