# Audiobook Sample: "Signals" Chapter 1: "The Signal"

CAST:

NARRATOR — measured, unhurried; the voice carrying the story
ELARA VOSS — protagonist, radio engineer, mid-thirties

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CHAPTER ONE
SCENE 1: REMOTE RESEARCH STATION — INTERIOR
[AMBIENCE: Wind against insulated walls, low electrical hum of equipment racks]
NARRATOR
The station had been silent for eleven days before Elara stopped counting.
[BEAT]
NARRATOR
Not silent the way a library is silent. Silent the way a held breath is silent.
[SFX: A desk chair rolling across concrete floor]
ELARA
(quietly, to herself)
There it is again.
[SFX: Static crackle from a receiver, then — beneath it — a faint rhythmic pulse]
NARRATOR
It wasn't in any of the logs. She'd checked three times. Whatever was riding the 1.4 gigahertz band had no business being there — that frequency was protected. Reserved. Theoretically empty.
[BEAT — 3 SECONDS]
ELARA
(almost a whisper)
You're not supposed to exist.
[SFX: Pen scratching across paper as she begins writing]
NARRATOR
She wrote down the time. Then the frequency. Then, after a long moment, a single word she couldn't quite explain.
[BEAT]
NARRATOR
Alive.

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