RMVB — Ritual, Memory, Vestige, Beacon — hung over these encounters like a constellation.

Elias: This coat is infrastructure. It knows where people promised favors. We can restart the circuits.

The coat fit her like inheritance. It made her shoulders look like the shoulders of decisions. People turned without meaning to. A street vendor blessed her, and an old woman spat quietly through her teeth and said, That coat carries names. Mara learned quickly the truth in that sentence.

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