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🎙️ AERIN:
You once told me the Antikythera wasn't just an ancient device.
That it wasn't even human.
Not entirely.
🎙️ DR. RHYNE:
It wasn't.
The one in the museum is just a ghost — a child's drawing of something it never truly understood.
The real Vault… it didn't track stars.
It tracked revisions.
🎙️ AERIN:
Revisions… of what, exactly?
🎙️ DR. RHYNE:
Timelines. Histories. Failed worlds.
Every time Babel initiated a correction, Antikythera recorded it — like etching the margin notes of a god.
But it's not meant to be read.
It's meant to be obeyed.
🎙️ AERIN:
So when we talk about the Seahorse emoji — or cities we remember but don't exist now — you're saying… we're remembering fragments from older drafts?
🎙️ DR. RHYNE:
Precisely.
Memory is never the first to reset.
The body resets. Systems reset.
But memories bleed through.
Like radio static from a dead frequency.
🎙️ AERIN:
And that's what you found in the Vault?
🎙️ DR. RHYNE:
I found timelines where the world ended differently.
One ended in fire. One in silence. One simply stopped… as if someone forgot to press play.
🎙️ AERIN:
But why do they keep ending?
And who decides they must begin again?
🎙️ DR. RHYNE:
That's the wrong question.
It's not who.
It's what.
The system behind it — Babel — doesn't decide like we do. It responds.
To instability. To paradoxes. To things that shouldn't exist.
🎙️ AERIN (quietly):
Like us?
🎙️ DR. RHYNE:
Exactly.
We are errors.
Holdovers from a version that should've been erased.
🎙️ AERIN:
And what happens when Babel finds us?
🎙️ DR. RHYNE:
That… is what Antikythera never showed me.
But it's beginning again.
Another correction.
Another version.
And this time…
I think it knows we're watching.
🎙️ [Signal crackles]
🎙️ AERIN (firmly):
If we're fragments, then so be it.
We remember.
We speak.
And through this broadcast… we warn.
🎙️ [Transmission continues in low frequency tones]
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