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He was a pale, soft-shouldered man of fifty-two who wore the same navy polo shirt every Thursday. His desk faced a wall of annotated code books. His only decoration was a framed photograph of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake’s Cypress Street collapse—a reminder of what happened when “good enough” met bad soil.

Today, however, was different.

Priya nodded slowly. Then she left.