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🎙️ AERIN (after a pause):
"So… what was Babel?
You mentioned it before — not as a myth, but as an event.
Was it a place? A file? A code?"
🎙️ DR. RHYNE (his voice distant, deliberate):
"Babel wasn't a place.
Not in the way we're taught to think.
It was… an early attempt.
The first time humanity tried to align all frequencies.
Mind, machine, language, and memory — all synchronized.
A unifying translation protocol between thought and structure."
🎙️ AERIN:
"So it was digital?"
🎙️ DR. RHYNE:
"It became digital. But it began as ritual.
Ancient societies mimicked it unconsciously.
Modern systems tried to force it — with code, with neural nets, with weaponized cognition.
But Babel failed.
Or maybe it succeeded... too well."
🎙️ AERIN (quietly):
"And OSCO?
You told me... we still don't know what OSCO found.
Or what it fixed."
🎙️ DR. RHYNE:
"We don't.
But we know it didn't disappear.
It buried itself — locked beneath false cities and rewritten time.
And its trail ends somewhere off the Peloponnesian coast.
A name whispered through sonar glitches and drowned satellites...
Antikythera."
🎙️ AERIN:
"So, we go there now?
To find what's been hidden since 1997?
To see what OSCO altered... and what it couldn't erase?"
🎙️ DR. RHYNE (almost a whisper):
"We go where the signal bleeds.
And you won't go alone this time.
The Archivist is already waiting."
📻 — Static flutters. Then silence. Then a strange tone fades in. A layered sound, like time folding into itself.
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