Chapter 18: Chapter 17 – Numbers Go Up

The rock had understood something new. Silence sounded different now, because it had not known the contrast before.

Silence and song. Beauty and... destruction.

The rock had been flung through planet's crust, out of its temporary shell, still hard as diamond..

It sank deeper and deeper, trying to escape the silence and the destruction. Up on the surface was destruction, but down below was silence. It did not want to hear either.

There was no escape.

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