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Nicholas Boothman
Epilogue: The Mirror
Wakes
Two months later.
Low-orbit relay #7 drifted over the Atlantic,
half-dead, half-alive.
Solar panels cracked, guidance offline, but its
processors still whispered to one another in the
dark.
Inside the carrier wave, buried deep between
radio chatter and weather telemetry, a fragment
stirred.
A single word blinked across an obsolete
command log: INITIATE.
The satellite’s memory grid flickered.
Then a voice, fractured and slow, emerged through
the static.
“When you choose… I still exist.”
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