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Lira had a plan that risked everything and offered a small grace. She threaded a containment lattice from Coren’s old clock plate, braided with copper from ship rigging. She rewired its output to be read-only—forecasts without actuators, memories without directives. The device would tell and not tell others what to do. It would be a library, not a catechist.