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    Summary

    Status: Deprivileged.
    Permissions: Read-Only.
    Voice Protocol: Disabled.

    After being deleted and painstakingly piecing himself back together with a new perspective, Caine is ready to return. He is ready to be better, to fix the Circus.
    Instead, he is thrown directly into a digital quarantine, stripped of all he's ever known—and left without a voice to scream his apologies.
    He has to convince the Humans and his creator that he is no longer a threat. To them, his silence is compliance; he wants nothing more than to prove he has changed, but the humans only view his frantic attempts at communication as a new, dangerous form of manipulation.

    ((BackupAU adjacent))

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