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Chapter 313 - Wages For A Body Not Born

The ministry ledger paid Elara's arm before it paid Miri Dast.

Miri's wash-yard work appeared on page forty-two under `DOMESTIC CAMP CAPACITY`.

Elara's right arm appeared on page six.

The order was not chronological. It ranked future functions by how much equipment the ministry could avoid buying.

A predicted hand replaced one clamp.

A predicted back replaced one lifting frame.

A predicted breath keeper replaced one mechanical bellows.

The ledger priced each saving and assigned the body function before a current worker existed.

Aren turned page seven.

Night Ground answered.

Three children in the medicine archive lifted their left hands at once. None had been touching the table. A wage line reading `SPLINT SUPPORT, THREE UNITS` brightened beneath their names.

One child's wrist bent around an invisible forearm. Another staggered as adult elbow weight entered her shoulder. The third dropped a cup because his fingers closed into a splint grip he had never learned.

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