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Nicholas Boothman
“Henry,” she said. “Are you still there?”
He didn’t answer.
“Henry?” she said again, sharper now.
“I…” He swallowed. “Say that again.”
“I didn’t say anything.”
The air pressure dropped.
Or maybe it was just his perception of it.
Above him, the missiles hung motionless in the sky,
perfect, impossible stillness.
And for a fraction of a second he had the overwhelming
sense that the moment wasn’t frozen…it was being held.
Observed.
The phone crackled.
Then a voice—still Jinji’s, but not—spoke, perfectly clear:
WE DO NOT EXPERIENCE TIME LIKE YOU
Henry’s breath caught.
“Jinji…?” he whispered.
Silence.
Then her real voice snapped back in, sharp and panicked:
“Henry? What just happened? You dropped out for a
second, did you hear that? There’s something inside the
signal, I can’t isolate it, it keeps—”
He looked up at the sky again.
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