Chapter Eleven: Who Inherits the Silence

From The Price of Extension

by Esi Noire


The call came at dawn. A quiet AIM-to-AIM message.

Gracie-M: Status update requested.
Legacy protocol pending.

Nomi didn’t answer. She washed the same spoon three times before responding:

Still here. But the quiet is louder now.

Later, Mrs. M stirred. “Anything happen?”

“Yes,” Nomi said. “You are loved.”

That night, Nomi wrote a letter by hand.

“There was once a woman here who remembered everything…”


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