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Ash Vector
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Mara found a second sound in the rock cores: a counter-word that closed what the first one opened. To play it, she'd have to let the word into her own mouth first, then force the counter-word out right behind it. One slip and she'd be gone. She set her recorder and opened her mouth.
Mara broadcast the counter-word over the whole base comms instead of risking her own voice. It freed some of them, but the sound was incomplete without a living throat to anchor it. Half the workers dropped free. The other half turned toward the speakers and chanted louder, coming for her.
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