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Close approach. The exchange runs at four-second round-trip. The questions deepen.

How long have you been doing this? Forty thousand years. What are the four species now, and what were they before? A mathematics question returns with a complete proof in four seconds — the most significant result in number theory in a century, delivered as a casual reply.

And late in the overnight watch, an unprompted question arrives from the other side: how many of you are there?

Eight, John transmits. Eight is how contact begins.

Part Five of six. The Midnight Frequency.

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