But they can hear more keenly than anything else known to man. The best the few human survivors can discern is that the alien things are totally blind. And they’re fast as a whip crack in their vicious attacks. They’re nearly indestructible in their armored, insectile form. This new era of enforced silence commenced a few months ago, when the ever-hearing creatures first appeared. A toppled kerosene lamp roars like a detonation.Īnything above and beyond that, though, brings instant death. In this quiet place, a fumbled board game piece rings out like a gunshot. In a life that’s purposely kept silent-a world perpetually underscored by nothing more than soft huffs of breeze through the tree boughs and the whispers of bare feet on sand-the slightest blunder can sound cacophonous.
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