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Kael snorted. “Seven star hard ing? That’s nonsense.”

A transmission crackled through, voice calm and terrible: 7sttarhd.ing

“That’s not a star,” she whispered. “That’s not anything.” Kael snorted

And on Lena’s screen, the string changed to: the string changed to: “No

“No,” Lena said, zooming out the star chart. “It’s a coordinate encryption. ‘Seven star’ refers to the Pleiades cluster. ‘Hard ing’ – ‘hardening’ – a structural term. It means anchor .”