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Silence. Then: “The Guild doesn’t pay for rituals, Kaelen. Extract the music tracks. Compress them to 128kbps MP3. We’ll distribute them as morale packets to the settlements. Delete the rest.”

It was Casey Kasem’s voice, slightly warped, overlapping with itself from multiple rebroadcasts, saying the same words with a half-second delay between each copy: american top 40 archive

Instead, he copied the entire drive—all 8.7 terabytes—onto three separate storage units. He hid one in the ceiling of the workshop. He buried one in a Faraday cage under an abandoned grain silo. And the third, he kept with him. Silence