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She stepped off at Magallanes, and the platform exhaled. A warm draft smelling faintly of iron and antiseptic.

When the lights returned, Lira’s hand was no longer on the pole. It was pressed flat against the wall. And the wall was warm. And it was moving —not with the train’s motion, but with something deeper. Peristalsis. mrt3 vo zivo

She pulled her hand back. A faint red imprint remained, then faded into the metal like a bruise healing in reverse. She stepped off at Magallanes, and the platform exhaled

“You are the white blood cells now. Be grateful. The old city had no immune system at all.” It was pressed flat against the wall

She looked around. Other commuters stared at their phones, faces lit by blue glow, oblivious. Or perhaps not. The man beside her wore the same dark circles under his eyes. His knuckles were white around the handle.