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The office was silent, save for the rhythmic tapping of Elias’s fingers against his desk. It was 2:00 AM, and the deadline for the merger proposal was six hours away. The company’s legal software had crashed, and in a moment of sleep-deprived desperation, Elias ignored every IT seminar he’d ever attended.
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Elias reached for the power button on his PC, but his hand froze. On the screen, a new PDF page had been created. It was a high-resolution scan of his own fingerprint, still pressed against the power button.
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