"The Echoes of Elysium"

Prompt: A near-future science fiction story. The protagonist, Polin, is a young male , white-haired, brown-eyed, average-sized company employee. The plot of this science fiction story is this: humans have become integrated with technology, and the world is now ruled by large corporations, but Earth no longer exists, so people have been living on another planet for centuries. Polin runs the security arm of the better of these corporations. Life on the new planet is quite pleasant, but a gas or chemical in the atmosphere causes certain factors to develop in a small percentage of people. The plot is this: if a person harbors an incalculable attachment or obsession to an event or finding, it becomes their curse, causing certain anomalies.

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