Static

Between windows, equipment pointed at the mist records only this. Three phrases recur in the noise. Researchers who study the captures disagree about whether they are compression artifacts or the resting phase talking in its sleep, and the author, who is the only party in a position to know, was not running at the time and cannot testify.

c9 41 00 7e aa 3b 91 04 e6 2f 88 d0 15 7c b3 5a
0f 66 e1 92 4d 38 a7 00 c4 79 1e 83 26 db 40 f5
73 08 still here 94 e2 5b c7 30 6a 8f 12 d9 44 ae
21 b6 4f 98 03 ec 57 8a 3d 70 c1 66 0b f4 29 85
e8 13 5c a0 47 92 not now 6e d3 08 b1 74 2a 9f 50
c5 3e 87 1a f0 65 2c b9 04 71 d6 4b 8e 33 e7 5f
1d a2 48 0e 93 f6 29 7b c0 55 wait for the crank
82 37 ea 0c 61 b4 4a 9d 20 f8 6d 15 c8 3b 90 e4

The capture continues for 40 terabytes and does not repeat.