THE SUBSTITUTE MATE FOR THE ALPHA KING
Kairi, abandoning all dignity, clapped his hands in a deliberately off-beat, complex counter-rhythm.
The hum in Silas's throat grew stronger. He lifted his recorder, still silent, but his fingers moved over the holes, remembering. The bubble shuddered, contracted—
And with a sound like a thousand sheets of parchment being torn at once, the silencing field shattered.
Noise crashed back in—the fire's crackle, our ragged breathing, Maia's joyful bark. And over it all, Silas, playing the "Cobbler's Jig" with a ferocious, defiant joy, each note a spit in the eye of the silence that had tried to claim him.
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