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She didn't fall; she glided. Using a localized gravity-sink, Angeline descended toward a maintenance hatch three stories down. Cierra followed a second later, her descent controlled and silent, her eyes already scanning the internal schematics she had pulled from the cloud.

Cierra didn't look up from her wrist-mounted terminal. Her fingers moved in a blur, bypassing the first layer of the spire's thermal shielding. "Silence is what gets us home, Red. Try to remember that." Cierra_Bell_Angeline_Red_-_A_Perfect_Team_Addit...

"Yeah," Cierra said, tucking the drive into her jacket. "We got it. Now, how do you feel about jumping off a seventy-story balcony?" Angeline’s eyes lit up. "I thought you'd never ask." She didn't fall; she glided