Price Of Victory

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Three weeks after the coordinated arrests, Maya collapsed during ICC press conference explaining prosecution strategy. She was speaking about institutional reform when her words slurred, her vision tunneled, and she crumpled behind the podium with seizure that sent security scrambling and journalists documenting rather than assisting. Louis received call from Dutch hospital where Maya had been transported via emergency services. "Your daughter experienced severe neurological event during public appearance. Initial assessment suggests poisoning with delayed-action neurotoxin. She is stable but unconscious. You should come immediately." The words triggered flashbacks to Marcus's poisoning fifteen years earlier—same methodology, same deliberate cruelty of attack that created suffering rathe

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