Delphi 2021.10b -

Then she saw them.

One of them turned to her. Her eyes were two dark, bottomless wells. She spoke, but the sound came not from her lips, but from the discordant B-flat harmonic in Lena's resonator. delphi 2021.10b

She found the epicenter between the third and fourth standing columns. The air tasted of ozone and hot copper. Lena knelt, brushing fallen olive leaves aside, and placed a calibration disc onto the bedrock. The disc's surface shimmered, not reflecting the rain, but reflecting something else: a memory of sunlight. Then she saw them