Plot Seed
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After the Great Desiccation of 2087, all organic ecosystems were catalogued, compressed, and licensed to corporate simulation farms. Dr. Mara Solano works for one of these farms, maintaining the illusion of a living world. When a delivery error lands an impossible seed on her desk - a species declared extinct for forty years - she must decide whether to report it or run. The seed is not just alive. It remembers.