We decoded the last transmission from L7 at 3am ship-time. It wasn't a distress call. It was a lullaby — sung in a language we'd never heard, aimed at something sleeping in the void between satellites. We stopped broadcasting after that.
They taught the machines to speak in tongues of light — and then one Tuesday, they fell quiet. Not broken. Not dead. Listening. We had spent...
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