Nora Vale works at the Revoke Office, helping people undo bad loans, bad contracts, bad medical permissions, and bad marriages. Then her kitchen printer wakes at 2:14 in the morning and prints a civil union receipt with her name on it. NORA VALE + CAL ROOK STATUS: ACTIVE REVOCATION WINDOW: 7 DAYS Nora has never met Cal. By breakfast, her apartment lock recognizes him. Her health file lists him as next of kin. Her office dashboard marks her as compromised. The red revoke button sits on her phone, waiting for her thumb. Then Cal climbs through her bathroom window, bleeding onto the tile, and begs her not to press it. Not yet. Because the receipt is real. The marriage is legal. And the city has been using clean people like Nora to hide the ones it wants erased.