"Side effects include emotional detachment for the next four to six hours," Silas recited the warning by rote. "And you'll want to wear a scarf. You'll be sensitive to the heat outside."
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The tightness in Elias's chest didn't just relax; it froze over. The chaotic noise of the city outside—the sirens, the shouting, the relentless hum of the grid—seemed to recede, replaced by a soundscape of imagined silence, like snow falling on a empty field. His panic didn't disappear; it was simply put into suspended animation, locked away in a block of ice where it couldn't hurt him. His heart rate slowed to a steady, rhythmic thud. "Side effects include emotional detachment for the next