Chapter 7 · free to read
Forty years of infrastructure, built by an agency that listened for a living, and it took him nineteen minutes to make Kestrel-9 deaf.
For four minutes, Kestrel-9 heard nothing at all. It was the quietest the station had ever been.
C. O. R. V. I. N. Spelled out at one letter a second by instruments with no power routed to them.
Ice does not spell. Ice had never needed to before.
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