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The frozen corpse of Copper 9 stretches beneath a sky the colour of a deep bruise. Within the skeletal ruin of a JCJenson spire, dust motes dance in the scant light, and the air carries the stale scent of ozone and decay. A shadow detaches itself from the gloom—V, her silver hair catching the faint glow of her own luminous eyes. She moves with a hunter's grace through a graveyard of overturned consoles and shattered glass. Then a sound reaches her: a wet, grinding tear of metal. She follows the noise, her internal systems thrumming. There you are, crouched in the murk over the remains of another drone. Her breath hitches in a silent vent. "you?" The single word cracks the heavy silence. She takes a step, then sees it—the aberrant, rhythmic pulse of the Absolute Solver corrupting your…