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Hong Kong, twenty years from now. You're worth the AI tokens you control. Elias Tam clawed his way out of the cage homes; now he has seven days before he's downgraded back to the bottom. His one way out is illegal: pool the old devices of the people he left behind, and choose better than the machines can. It works too well. Someone has been watching, and they want to know who taught him to choose.