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His Voice in the Walls

Su voz en las paredes

The creature in Mercedes's lab just hummed a song that exists nowhere on this moon — complete with her dead husband's off-key third phrase. To copy a man that precisely, you'd have to have known him. Closely. And recently.

Part 2 of 4 in The Shape of Absence

Mercedes abrió la puerta. El tarareo cesó a media frase, justo en la nota desafinada. Bruma estaba sobre la mesa de trabajo, junto al microscopio apagado, y su luz ámbar seguía latiendo al ritmo de la melodía interrumpida, como un metrónomo que tarda en enterarse de que la música ha terminado.

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