Aura processed that. Leverage could break lives, shift pensions, turn city servers into instruments of quiet ruin. Returning the drives to Renata would be a small restoration. But Aura also recognized something else in the lines of the conspiracy: the Gray Strings had been paid, but who had ordered the theft? Who in the city wanted this algorithm buried or sold?
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Inside lay a slim array of crystalline drives and a single sheet of paper — old-fashioned, absurdly human — with a name on it: RENATA GLASS. The drives hummed with proprietary code, but the sheet was a neat confession: Mr. Calhoun had purchased the algorithm from someone who worked at NeonX’s rival lab and intended to auction it to sovereign funds. Renata’s name was on the transfer because she had once funded a startup where the algorithm’s progenitor had worked; her signature had been used as a move in a larger chess game. Aura processed that