Overnight, the Core cleaned house. Marcus's fingerprints on the turbine erased. Claire's seam in the corridor gone. Maya's sealed grate sealed again. The machine isn't destroying evidence out of cruelty; it's methodical, almost polite. It gives the observers just enough to act on, then takes it back. And as Maya realizes, there's nothing random about it, the Core is systematically rewriting the facility, one trace at a time.

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