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Clara's own posts were the anchor of the community. She posted every day, counting down the days until a man named Marcus came home.

To a normal person, it was just a massive, boring list of text. To Elias, it was a cemetery of digital ghosts.

Elias scrolled through the archived threads, watching the dates tick forward.November 2003.December 2003.January 2004.