I settled the headphones over my ears. When I inhaled, I felt a little lurch in my stomach.

Every time I turned them on, I was afraid I’d lost the signal. And every time I turned them on, I was afraid I hadn’t.

This was getting out of hand. This…investigation that I’d gotten caught up in. But if it was a prank, it was—I was going to say “epic,” but that word gets overused. It was…extravagant.

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