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... stand restraint.
They reject it.
The city woke into a different tension than before—sharper, colder, carrying intent instead of curiosity. The probes were gone. The negotiations had quieted. The polite misreadings had ended.
What remained was belief.
Belief that power only answers to pressure.
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Arjun felt it as soon as the first signal arrived.
"That’s not testing," he said.
"That’s positioning."
"Yes," I replied.
" ...
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