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At first, there was nothing but static. For a few seconds, which might've been the longest seconds Grace had ever experienced, there was no comprehensible sound outside of the fuzzy feedback of an unstable connection. Grace furrowed his brow, trying desperately to make out something, anything at all. Little by little, the signal cleared up enough to where he could just start to make out the sound of something...? No. Someone... Singing? His heart rattled in his chest as the singing continued, suddenly keenly aware that he probably needed to say something. It'd been so, so long- "Uh- Hello?" Almost immediately, the singing stopped. Grace found himself missing it. Just a little bit. He stood with bated breath, hoping, praying that he hadn't scared the voice off. A clatter of something falling on the ground, heavy, clumsy thuds that sounded like heavy boots hitting metal, static... Grace tried again. "Hello? Is anyone there?" Then, clear as day, 'Hello...? Are.. who... who are you?' (This story happens slightly before the events of Iron Lung, shortly after PHM)

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