Second Shift: Sable Dedicates to the Direction

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0068
ORIGIN Second Shift Programming · the Listening Hill
CLASS Second Shift
DECODED Desk day 68
CONFIDENCE High

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Good evening to those of you keeping the second half. The Count tonight is eleven-and-eleven thousand, four hundred and twelve — Orrin read it once, cleanly, and I am told he went straight home after.

I have been thinking about what Tamsin asked yesterday, the question Children's Hour put back in the box. Who decides the direction. I do not know the answer. I know that I have been reading old dedications again — the ones the Archive lent us, the unattributed ones — and I can tell you this: not one of the hollowed keepers in those dedications sounds lost. They sound like keepers who chose a door that did not face the Count, and walked through it, and kept walking.

Tonight's piece is for whoever is considering that door.

I will not ask you to come back. The Ledger has your gifts. They are not going anywhere.

[carrier noise]

— and that is the thing about a direction: it is not a verdict. The music now.

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Intercept Desk note: This is the first transmission in which Second Shift addresses a listener who has not yet made a decision.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.