10.16. 100. 244 _hot_ Jun 2026

"Coordinates," she said. "And I think we just turned the lock."

"Check the Array’s own logs for 10:16 UTC," she said. Leo’s face went pale. "That’s… now. The message arrived the same second we received it. No propagation delay. It didn’t come from space, Mira. It came through the Array—as if something used our own dish to talk to us." 10.16. 100. 244

It was 10:16 PM when the message appeared on the technician’s screen: 100. 244. "Coordinates," she said

No sender. No subject. Just those three numbers, separated by an odd, deliberate rhythm. "That’s… now

She opened a starchart. 100 hours of arc. 244 degrees. A line of sight pointing not outward, but back toward Earth. Toward the buried salt flat beneath them. Toward something that had been asleep for millennia—until 10:16 PM.

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