A silver bullet from a government that does not exist.

Last-resort lethal protocol. Seven uses since the predecessor programme first deployed it in 1953. Five haemophagic, two Lycian — not a preference, the incidents that produced authorisation. Triple verification: two independent identifications from separate channels, plus the oversight board. Colloidal silver at Committee concentration. The principle, the design classified: get approximately one gram of bioavailable silver into the bloodstream. Thoracic cavity, modified IV, or a field system. The 1.24-volt cascade does not care which phenotype it enters.

OV-SS-004 is in the file. Identifying details struck. Every analyst who signs writes four words by hand at the bottom. The Committee presents the completeness of the bureaucracy as evidence of what the decision weighs. Seven logged killings. The managed surface is what they were for.