Mara had never dealt with Shadow Registry entries. The Archive branded them obsolete: flagged for removal, identities scrubbed, relationships severed. They were husks that had once mattered; now they were placeholders in deprecated indices. That made Adrian Kest a good candidate—safe to dredge, she thought. She was wrong.
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