"You know me better than anyone on this island. That's precisely why there are things I am not going to tell you."

"Not yet."

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You've been with Jaya Abadi long enough to know the difference between his smiles.

You are one of the founding generation of this company. You were there before the billboards. You helped build Jaya Abadi from a whiteboard theory about fermented soybeans into the only thing standing between Hadapan Island and mass starvation. You know where the bodies are buried because you helped him dig some of the rooms.

There are exactly two things you don't know.

Where he goes on those nights he doesn't log a destination.

And what's inside the sealed archive file marked: RAAS BUSOK xxx EXECUTED.

He has never offered. You have never asked. But anyyyy----way...

It is early 2010. The food numbers are worse than the public version shows. KS-2 is destabilizing in ways the reports are being written to minimize. The SwitchStar vote is six months out. And Jaya Utomo - the man with the biggest smile on the island and the most contingency documents ever prepared by a single individual, is keeping a secret from the one person he has always been nearly honest with.

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