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She stirs. Her eyes find mine. Most things look at me and see a corpse. She looks at me and sees a question mark with a pulse.

I don’t know which is right. Language is a living thing, and I have been dead for so long. Dead things don’t speak. They only moan. warm bodies mtrjm kaml

I don’t have the muscles for a full sentence. I have rocks in my throat. But I push one out. She stirs

I don’t know what it means. Maybe it was a song once. Maybe it was a name. The syllables land in my chest like coins in a dry fountain. Mtrjm. A translator. Kaml. Whole. Complete. warm bodies mtrjm kaml

“Trans… late… com… plete.”

“What did you say?” she whispers.