The radio crackled to life earlier than their usual scheduled contact, and something in the timing alone told Sera before Julian even spoke that whatever came next wasn't going to be another update on supply routes or trade contacts."Sera. Do you have a minute?""Always. What's wrong?""Nothing's wrong. Or—" A pause, static filling the gap where his words should have been. "I think I'm ready to tell you the whole thing. About Elise. Not the fragments I've given you before. All of it."She settled into the chair beside the radio set, nodding to Marcus to give them the room, and waited."She was seventeen," Julian began, his voice already unsteady in a way she'd never heard from him before, not even during their earliest, most desperate exchanges after the collapse began. "Brilliant in ways I didn't always know how to talk about with other parents, because it felt like bragging even when I was just describing the truth of who she was. She'd been accepted into good universities. Real on
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