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"CIWAZ," he muttered, typing the final suffix into the search engine of the clandestine DSRI database. The screen flickered. A single, redacted file from 1974 appeared. It was a project titled Project CIWAZ: The Echo Response .

"It’s not a glitch," Elias whispered, his voice cracking from hours of disuse. baoufstq-nlfnabz-cqfclk-40-9-7-ciwaz

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