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She was twelve blocks from home, her mother’s medicine clutched in her backpack. The clinic had been raided earlier—Peacekeepers looking for unlicensed literature. By the time she got the pills, the thrum had already started.

“Move, kız,” hissed a street sweeper, dragging his cart over the cobbles. “They’re testing the new drones tonight.”

Her sneakers squeaked. The light found her. A mechanical voice, flat and genderless, echoed off the buildings: “Curfew violation. Halt. Identification required.”