We gather at Talia's apartment past midnight, the folder spread open across the coffee table, everyone leaning in despite the exhaustion of a long day already behind us.
"This is extensive," Talia says, flipping through page after page of documentation. "Financial records dating back nearly thirty years. Memory extraction facilities disguised as wellness clinics, private auction records for particularly valuable memories, buyer lists redacted but clearly organized by wealth tier."
"Wellness clinics," Mira repeats, disgust clear in her voice. "They're using the same charity front strategy, just applied to a different currency."
"Older strategy, actually," Corin says, examining one of the documents closely. "According to this timeline, the memory market predates the charity pi
