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Chapter 8 - What Was in Jonah’s Ear?

Mara examined the creature without touching it.

It looked organic.

Yet there were metallic fibers along its body.

“What if it isn’t an animal?” Jonah asked.

“Then what is it?”

“Technology?”

“Technology doesn’t whisper.”

Jonah looked toward the dead radio.

“Neither do unplugged radios.”

Mara found a magnifying lens.

Embedded within the creature was something like a tiny coil.

Helen’s research might explain it.

Jonah searched his phone.

One audio note had been recorded two days earlier.

Helen spoke quickly:

“The signal isn’t being transmitted through speakers anymore. It’s using biological conduction. Anything exposed long enough starts carrying the frequency.”

Jonah’s voice asked:

“Carrying it how?”

Helen answered:

“We are becoming receivers.”

The recording ended.

Mara stared at the jar.

“That thing was receiving the signal.”

Jonah nodded.

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“And it was inside me.”

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