Mara kept a sliver of plastic in her pocket, the puck’s painted face now a crescent. It hummed faintly, a memory of bargaining. She did not feel triumphant. She felt honest: present in the city’s ordinary mercies and its small cruelties. The ledger remained, filled with entries she would not reverse, but also with new columns—repair, apology, restitution. She began, in small ways, to return what had been taken. She cooked soup for the stall-keeper whose change she had nudged; she sat with the neighbor over tea and listened to old resentments unravel; she placed a coin anonymously on a bench where homeless hands might find it.

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And the quiet, hungry dark grew just a little bit deeper.