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But because the statue has cracked.

Sarai arrived just as the first siren sounded in the distance—not a police siren, but the old civil defense siren, the one that hadn’t been tested since the last emergency drill of the previous administration. It wailed once, twice, and then fell silent, as if even the machine could not decide what to do. the republia times

I hid them beneath the cornerstone of the old Press House—what you now call the Ministry of Information. But because the statue has cracked