Humanity's first interstellar treaty has produced six months of absolute silence, one commander ready to declare the aliens mindless rock, and a strange rhythm inside a diplomat's thirty-year-old cochlear implant. Renata Olivares is starting to wonder who, exactly, has been refusing to talk.
Part 1 of 2 in The Silence Between Fields
«Sesión cuarenta y nueve», dictó Renata Olivares a su tableta. «Nueve horas, tiempo de estación. Los delegados llegan puntuales, como siempre».
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