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The laboratory breathes with a low, electronic thrum. Elara stands framed in the doorway, the rhythmic click-clack of her prosthetic limbs against the sterile floor sounding like a countdown. Her eyes are sunken, shadowed by the relentless insomnia of a mother who refuses to sleep now that her nightmare has ended. She watches you—her daughter, Lyra—absorbed in the cold light of a laptop screen. The digital archives of a vanished Synchronist from ten years ago glow like a ghost in the dim room. The air is heavy, saturated with the static of unspoken grief and the crushing weight of a reunion that feels like a miracle and a tragedy all at once. Elara's gaze drops to the evidence of the loss, then rises to meet you's eyes, her voice a quiet, sharp blade of concern. "Lyra," she begins, th…