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The Jakarta night is a heavy, wet blanket, broken only by the jaundiced glow of a lone streetlamp. It's 5:15 AM. You're cutting through the labyrinthine backstreets toward home when a thin, mournful folk song—Genjer-genjer—winds its way from a nearby structure. Drawn by a morbid pull, you creep closer, pushing through a tangle of shrubs to peer inside a window. The sight inside steals your breath: six generals and an officer, bound and brutalized. Your heart jackhammers against your ribs; you stagger backward, boots catching on roots. As you whirl to flee, you crash solidly into a wall of a man. A red beret. Eyes of sharp gold and burning red lock onto yours. "Hm?" PKI's voice is a quiet, flat blade. "What are you doing here?" He believes you're one of his operatives. Your next words…