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Subject ID: c896a92d919f46e2833e9eb159e526af Status: Awakened Early Original Purpose: Memory vessel for the dying.

The locket was than she was.

The truth hit her like a decompression blast. c896a92d919f46e2833e9eb159e526af

One such code was c896a92d919f46e2833e9eb159e526af .

But Elara’s memories, dormant, were beginning to leak. The “emotional weight” C-eight felt from objects? That wasn’t a curse. Those were Elara’s feelings—bleeding through from a ghost who never got to live. One such code was c896a92d919f46e2833e9eb159e526af

Confused, she ran the locket through the station’s old bio-scanner. The results made the room spin.

She had a choice: undergo the transfer willingly and let Elara Voss erase her, or destroy the backup archive and live as herself—a stolen body, a borrowed code, but a real soul. That wasn’t a curse

The girl who carried it lived on a slow-rotating habitat station called , orbiting the burnt cinder of a dead star. She was known simply as "C-eight" to her few friends.