Date: October 12, 1997 Status: No visual confirmation

She looked at her logbook. The last entry she had written was for October 13, 1997, 00:00. It read:

Silence. Then a breath. Not a human breath. It was too symmetrical. A perfect inhalation of 2.4 seconds, then an exhalation of 2.4 seconds. Then a voice. Not a voice, either—a shape of a voice, like a heat signature of speech.