Episode 9 -- The Button and the Ledger
The tower door gave onto the yard and the yard gave nothing back — paved, narrow, walls close on both sides, the kind of hard-surfaced space that slaps every footfall right back up at you. No absorpti...
2 Aug 37min
Episode 8 -- The Long Walk Back
There's a particular sound the world makes when you're not in charge of your own body anymore, and it's mostly other people's breathing. I want to be clear that I didn't choose to notice this. Unconsc...
2 Aug 37min
Episode 7 -- What the Dark Keeps
Brennos got to "eight, all present" before his own whisper caught up with him and he stopped, the last word dying in his throat like a plucked string damped by a palm. Eight. He'd counted us. It was t...
2 Aug 37min
Episode 6 -- The Count Comes Up Short
The east end of the banquet hall was the good end, acoustically — far from the fireplace, where the tables broke up the reflections and the thirty-by-fifty room ate our footsteps into something soft. ...
2 Aug 35min
Episode 5 -- The Wall That Watches Back
Mouth B swallowed sound instead of returning it. That was the first thing — no tail, no slap, nothing coming home off the walls. A dead room. Low ceiling I could feel more than see, close enough that ...
2 Aug 30min
Episode 4 -- The Ledger and the Smoke
The fire was doing all the work in that room, and it wasn't doing it well — green wood, too much smoke, a hiss and pop that kept punching holes in whatever anyone tried to say. So when Morven came bac...
2 Aug 38min
Episode 3 -- The Corporal's Ledger
The tunnel spat us out into a pocket of granite that did ugly things to sound. I heard it before I saw the towers proper — that particular deadness of a space with no soft surfaces anywhere, stone flo...
2 Aug 31min
Episode 2 -- Threshold
You hear a drawbridge before you understand it. That's the thing about a big mechanism — it announces itself in the low end first, a groan you feel in your sternum before your ears catch up. Chain ove...
1 Aug 39min
