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There, he found the "Empty Fold." It was a digital vacuum where 'unpersons' were kept. Sarah was there, sitting in a physical chair in a physical room, but to the world—to the doors that wouldn't open for her, the food dispensers that wouldn't recognize her, and the police drones that flew right past her—she was a ghost.

The lights in his office didn't turn off; they simply ceased to acknowledge he was in the room. He reached for the door, but the smart-handle remained rigid, convinced the room was empty. Future crimes: everything is connected, everyon...

He traced a microscopic "lag" in the sector's power grid—a 0.004-second drain that shouldn't be there. It led him not to a back alley, but to a server farm owned by the city's own Infrastructure Bureau. There, he found the "Empty Fold