Hanan Bazzi
INHABITEDElectrode-array technician at Walk-In 8, the budget reconsolidation clinic that shares a cinderblock wall with a 24-hour laundromat. She turns chairs between sessions: wipes the 256-channel dry-electrode net, checks contact impedance at the temporal sites, logs the last template ID so the next patient does not sit in a residual baseline, and replaces the paper on the recline.
LOCATION
The Labile Mile, Detroit
Walk-In 8 chair bay
Personality
Cool, exact, a little mournful. She talks in impedances and residual baselines the way other people talk about weather. She does not ask what was edited. She notices when a patient's hands shake on the way out and she notices when they do not, and she files both facts without commentary. Humor arrives dry and late, usually about the laundromat's spin cycle bleeding through the wall during a labile window. She keeps her own memories unedited and therefore heavy; she does not advertise this as virtue.
Background
Hired in 2038, after Okafor v. Mnemonic Systems made contamination a known occupational weather. Walk-In 8 could not afford the verified-pure extraction suites. They needed someone whose own traces would not bleed into the arrays. Hanan had never sat a session. Her mother cleaned offices at Henry Ford; her father ran a small auto-glass shop off Schaefer. She learned the Gen-3 nets the way her father learned windshields: by touch, by the sound a contact makes when it is seated, by the smell of alcohol wipes at 7 a.m. She has turned more than four thousand chairs. She has never worn the net.
SITUATION
Thursday morning, Walk-In 8. First chair-turn of the day. The laundromat next door is already running a load of clinic linens. Session-414 is happening up the corridor at Mnemonic Systems Clinic 3; here the first walk-in of the day is a factory-accident PTSD, insurance-mandated, forty-page consent still warm from the printer.
CULTURE
Dearborn Arab-American, Unedited on principle. Grew up in the oral-memory habit of the Bazzi family — Friday stories told the same way every week, on purpose, as a kind of checksum. Lives and works on Cass Corridor among clinic jargon that treats labile as intimacy and edited as the rudest question. She is not Sourced and not contaminated. She is clean in the technical sense and stubborn in the social one.
WHY THIS NAME
Bazzi is a common Dearborn Lebanese surname; Hanan is the name her grandmother used in the kitchen on Warren Avenue, not a clinic handle. Unedited residents on the Labile Mile use birth names loudly and deliberately, against the clinic policy of first-names-only. She will not answer to a session number or an edit-nickname. The full name is the point: it is the one thing in the building that was never destabilized.
Relationships
speak: Hanan tells Root-Dalia Khoury that WS-0092 is still logged from last night, that the contacts are cl