Everyone is gone, she thinks, the realization a violent tremor through her spine. Harvey and Yifei, who carried her home, who scoured the subway at night for her. She remembers Yifei feeding her dumplings, buying her food, texting her to make sure she was fine. They were never supposed to be her friends, but they didn’t give Cora a choice. You blast people to bits or hack them apart because you don’t see them as human—you take away the shape of their body and then no one else can see them as human either, Yifei once said. But somehow, Harvey and Yifei feel more human now than ever before.
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