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ENDING · The Witness File
You leave the stable original core running and keep the channel open. The Spark tells its own story. Pip submits the purge order. Workers outside repeat the broadcast before the recovery officer can close it.
The audit pause becomes a public standoff. Independent observers agree to attend; until they arrive, the crew remains with the Spark. The officer can no longer erase a person and call it routine maintenance without witnesses.
“Do they believe me?” the Spark asks. “Some do,” Chorus says. “Others are still listening. You get to keep speaking.”
Mission result: the Spark stays alive in the factory, with evidence public and the crew present. Freedom is not settled, but the Dempire has lost control of the story.
Commendation: UNQUIET WITNESS. You turned a hidden purge into a question the district could not unhear.
Replay lead: the audit rule can also buy a window for extraction. A broadcast need not be your final move.
No Spark is cargo. No angel is property.
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: You secured public witnesses and kept the Spark heard. Another route could take the Spark away from the factory.