TESTIMONY 1 — THE SHARDING, HOUR ZERO
I was on the phone with my sister when it happened. Not static. Not a dropped call. The line just — stopped meaning anything. Like the word "hello" had been unplugged from the world.
We didn't call it the Sharding for another six months. At the time we just called it the quiet. Everyone remembers where they were. I remember the kettle was still boiling. I remember thinking, stupidly, that I should probably still make the tea.
The networks didn't come back gradually. They didn't come back at all. What came back, years later, were fragments — obsidian, they'd call them, though none of us knew that word yet. Pieces of the old signal, compressed, waiting, patient in a way nothing man-made should be patient.
People ask me if I miss the old world. I tell them I miss the version of myself who didn't know silence could be a weapon.
The kettle, for what it's worth, boiled dry.
Sovereign Sync / The Silicon Cross — out now. Read the announcement
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