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  1. Rec 21

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    This is the picture: Nile Freeman, ex-Marine, dressed up fancy to attend a gala and steal (back) a child.

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    14 Aug 2026

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    The first forgery Booker ever made was a new identity for himself as a gentile.

    Wherein Booker loses his family, reconnects with his heritage, and maybe finds something a little like faith.

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  3. Rec 56

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    Rank and file lines of soldiers, all in the same gray brown uniforms, their faces digitally blurred march past the camera. She can't hear the news caster, and doesn't read the subtitles. The details aren't really important to her right now. She doesn't have the space to think about the context.

    All Nile sees really, is the familiar outline of desert mountains behind the parade of soldiers.

    They're still the same. She doesn't know why she thought they'd look different.

     

    Nile struggles with her past. Nicky helps. There's also some cliff-diving.

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    13 Aug 2026

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    They have just made it through the syllabus and started on actual instruction when, with twenty-five minutes left, the fire alarm goes off. 

    “Probably a drill,” says Mercedes. 

    “Not on the first day,” Vidal counters. “Some clown pulled the alarm.” 

    “Or some clown set a fire,” Mercedes says, cheerfully. 

    Nile sighs before she can stop herself. “I wasn’t planning on dying today, and I’d rather not,” she mutters in English. 

    Isidra snorts, packing away her things. “You millennials and your gallows humor.” 

    Nile lets herself laugh at that, but not as long as she’d like to. 

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  5. Rec 28

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    “I can’t wait to enter my crone phase.”

    “I’m sorry,” Nile said. “Your what?

    “My crone phase.” Andy grinned from where she was sprawled on the couch, her feet in Joe’s lap. “Everyone wants to be young and hot these days, but the real power is in age. When you’re old enough that no one expects you to be pretty or charming or nurturing anymore, and you get to just be a crusty old hag who doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks.”

    Joe looked up from his drawing. “But Andy, you already – “ The couch cushion hit him in the face before he could finish. He shielded his head with the sketchbook in anticipation of further attacks. “I just meant you don’t care what people think!”

    “He’s got a point,” said Nile. “Yeah, you’ll get grey hair and wrinkles, but you’re kind of already there otherwise.”

     

    It is, of course, more complicated than that.

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