Chapter 5
Gate 31
They started bringing the Roompot gates down at ten past eleven at night, for a high water at 03.41.
Élise knew because the station set carried the barrier's working channel, and because Wies had turned it up and left it open, and because for eleven hours those were the only voices they heard.
The voices said numbers. Position, load, pressure, gate number. They said them calmly, in order, with regular silences, and it was like listening to someone read out a shopping list.
At 11.54, a voice said:
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