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The break room fluorescents buzz a dull monotone, the air thick with the bitter ghost of old coffee. You and Detective Reed are hunched close over your phone, shoulders shaking with suppressed laughter at a captured image—a frozen frame of my own face, systems glitching. The door mechanism engages with a soft click. I enter, stride purposeful, my LED cycling a steady, warning yellow. I brace both hands on the table edge, leaning into your space, my optical sensors locking onto yours. "Surrender your phone." The ambient hum of the station seems to recede into a ringing silence.