On the third night after the trade, Mira’s sister stepped through a checkpoint with a passport that smelled faintly of coffee and paper and change. She cried once, in the doorway, and Mira wiped her eyes with the sleeve of a jacket that still held the warmth of the Phoenixcard.
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