THE FIRST click came from someone named Avo Lin.
That was the part that made it obscene.
Not a councilor.
Not a Voss remnant.
Not a smiling monster behind a clean desk.
Avo Lin, lower-sector donor badge, Restoration volunteer, three prior shares on Halden's corrected record and one comment under Oren Vale's name that said he deserved better than becoming their excuse.
He clicked SUPPORT RESCUE ACCESS because he meant it.
His profile picture was not a campaign seal or a blank bot face.
It was a man in a rain jacket standing beside an old woman with a shopping trolley, both of them squinting into sun. His public history showed a flood-route cleanup, a donated generator receipt, three arguments with Sovereign Safety accounts, and a clip of Oren Vale's name being repeated at North Rail.
The first public holder was exactly the kind of person the team needed alive.
That was why the button worked.
Soma caught the click in the payment layer.
The button brightened.
