She’d worked for them once—the LF Agents. Those glowing, too-cheerful digital custodians that scrubbed reality’s raw feed into sanitized, palatable streams. They called themselves guardians of cohesion . Lena called them thieves of the unfiltered .

: If you can prove a site is educational, teachers can often get it whitelisted by the IT department much faster than you can find a bypass.

I looked at the clock. We had twenty minutes before the library closed.