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The bone density procedure appealed to Kian in a way the full augmetic conversion hadn't. It wasn't replacement — it was reinforcement. His biological skeleton, made denser and harder through incremental treatment. That was a meaningful distinction.
The question of what the Sanctum would preserve was still relevant. But bones that had been progressively strengthened over months and years, that his muscles and tendons had adapted to, that had become genuinely and inextricably part of how he moved through the world — that felt like something he could accept as essentially his.
He still had concerns.
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