character seed #007GERMINATING
A woman who has spent her entire career exposing other people's lies discovers that every major memory from her childhood was deliberately fabricated.
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CULTIVATION CHAMBER 01STATUS: GERMINATING
Specimen 042Character seed #027
she keeps a key to a house she burned down
Root depth: unknown
the fear is older than the person
Pressure response: untested
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character seed #012UNSTABLE
A translator for a government he no longer believes in keeps quietly softening the threats he is paid to deliver.
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character seed #018UNTESTED
The most patient nurse on the ward is only patient because she is counting something nobody else can see.
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