Then at Lena, who was quietly crying, because she had read the PDF too, and she already knew what he would choose.
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Thorne looked at Lena. At the blinking screens. At Elias the baker, who was now standing in the virtual rain, head tilted toward a sky that was not really a sky. Then at Lena, who was quietly crying, because