Second Shift: Something Old, Before Quiet Hour

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0008
ORIGIN Second Shift Programming · Tiered Wards broadcast relay
CLASS Second Shift
DECODED Desk day 8
CONFIDENCE Partial

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—and that's the last of the music I had set aside for the early part of the shift, so if you're only just lying down now, you've missed the best of it. No matter. There's more.

Dedication reads: for the keeper in Ward Three-and-Nine who entered a gift this week for someone they haven't spoken to in eleven years. The Ledger held it. So did you.

Next piece is an old one — older than I can name, honestly. I found it in the Archive collection, no keeper listed as maker, just the notation "received, origin unrecorded." Which I know is not a comfortable thing to say over the air, but here it is anyway. Something made it. Something thought it was worth keeping. The Ledger didn't catch the giver, but it caught the gift.

[carrier noise]

—the Count tonight is eleven-and-eleven thousand, four hundred and twelve, same as this morning, same as it ought to be. Sleep well, second shift. You are in the record. Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: The Archive collection apparently loans to Second Shift.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.