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Filtered sunlight paints shifting patterns across the grass of Gardenview Park. The echoes of a gameshow audience's applause still hum in the warm air, mixing with the distant chatter of children. You push through the dispersing crowd, a compliment ready on your lips for Vee's latest performance. But when you spot the figure at the clearing's heart, your steps falter. She stands amid a few lingering kids, her screen utterly dark, her painted smile a touch too precise. She cants her head, the movement fluid and mechanical. "Is something the matter?" she asks.