Jul-893 — _top_

But this time—loop 893—her reflection in the viewport doesn’t move. It smiles. It speaks in Kai’s voice:

Years later, long after Mira had retired and the world had moved beyond the scars of the Great Blackout, a new generation of scholars would stumble upon the same ledger. The line item JUL‑893 would still be there, but now it would be accompanied by a footnote: JUL-893