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063. Demodulation Complete...

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It was late at night, and the city looked almost alive under the glow of the streetlamps and the deep shadows. Alex drove his car through the quiet, the soft hum of the engine breaking the stillness.

His hands gripped the steering wheel tightly as his mind raced between exhaustion and the pressing question he had been trying to answer for months.

Who’s the Godmother?

And he had an answer to his answer… the demodulator software.

It should’ve finished processing by now.

He’d meant to get the results the night before, but the software had crashed, a rogue memory overflow in the waveform alignment module.

He’d been halfway to snapping his keyboard in two before Rico talked him off the ledge, patched in remotely, and helped rebuild the corrupted index.

They restarted the process together just after midnight.

Twenty-four hours later, the program should be done. And this time, it wouldn't just be a garbled spectrogram or modulated echo. It would be clear. Decoded.

It would be a voice; a real
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