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“You sure?” Hana asks, eyes flicking to Maggie’s fingers where a tremor wants to speak. Cameras are badges now; her lens can cradle truth or crush it. “You don’t have to—”

Maggie loosens her hat and lets rain touch her face. For a single breath, she allows the tide of relief to lap at her ankles. This victory is brittle; the city will wound again. But tonight something shifts. Names will circulate. People will read. The ledger will tilt. Maggie Green- Joslyn -Black Patrol- sc.4-

Maggie looks at her people. They are tired; their faces are biographies of survival. She also looks at the paper in her hands, the thinness of truth and the weight it carries. Choices, in these nights, are not moral quandaries but arithmetic. “You sure