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Mina understood the terms and agreed. There are bargains with places like Micromine that ask for consent more than currency. She would be the interlocutor. She would carry the machine's work into the world, but under rules: no turnstiles, no admission, no sales pitches; repairs given only when people agreed to carry a small responsibility afterward. Fixes accompanied by an apprenticeship in care—an hour of tending the communal garden, teaching a child to measure angles, mending what had been taken. The town needed not miracles but habits.