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Nuckles v. Yeager
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The only crack in Evelyn's armor is a civil lawsuit filed by Marcus Nuckles, a retired archivist whose daughter, a social worker, disappeared after visiting Liam. The case, Nuckles v. Yeager, becomes Audrey's obsession. Court documents reveal a pattern: sixty-three identical “protective interventions” across the Federation, all linked to the Yeager residency. As Audrey publishes her findings, she herself is logged into Cradle as a hostile contaminant, and the algorithm begins to execute her elimination with the same serene, bureaucratic cadence.

