Chapter 16 — Second Pinch—Cost Becomes Personal
That night, Kelechi calls from a trembling voice. “They want me to drive another load. Into school zone. Please—help.”
Amara races to intercept him, tracking his location via a hidden beacon. She finds him at the edge of a primary school catchment area, loading a trunk with ion canisters destined to artificially trigger rain.
She pleads, and he breaks—admitting he cannot let harm fall on children, no matter the debt. They try to unravel the sequence, but the launch is already queued.
A storm builds overhead, thrumming with electrical intention.
“You run,” Amara says. “I’ll make sure the system fails safely.”
Kelechi escapes as sirens wail and streets empty. Amara triggers a radio signal interference, disrupting the launch enough to redirect part of the generated burst—saving the school but flooding a nearby market instead.
She’s wracked with guilt. The choices are no longer clean, and her own family is in the line of fire.

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