Pattern confirmed.
Temporary.
Emily’s expression shifted.
Not loud.
Not dramatic.
Withdrawal.
Beginning again.
The system destabilized.
Daniel made a decision.
Immediate.
“Find him.”
Not request.
Order.
Because now he understood something clearly:
Leo was not just a variable.
He was a trigger.
And losing him…
Would reset everything.
But what Daniel didn’t know yet…
Was that Leo didn’t leave because he wanted to.
He left because something else had found him first.
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