Person
Maren Holt
Proposed nameKeeper of Greywater Light and the network's ears. She logs the Choir's songs (time, bearing, depth, phrase) and hears trouble first; her logs are the best record of the Echo the network keeps, a record and never a proof. One logged song sounds like the 142.59 sign-off.
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keepsGreywater LightTidewell's post: a small, old lighthouse on the Sliver, a knife of black rock that is the only charted land on Tidewell, near the oldest platform.- member ofThe LamplightersThe keepers of the unlisted relays' posts, one to a world. Their creed: a black flame gives no light, but someone keeps it burning.
- logsThe ChoirVast bioluminescent leviathans in Tidewell's deep, seen from the surface only as slow light under the swell. Their songs travel on the old analog bands;
raises the alarm withJuno VargaKeeper of Station Nine: a miner who refused to leave when Rime was switched off and kept the long-range dish turning through ten years of unanswered calls. Now the first to answer anyone.- links hereGreywater Light's markTidewell's post mark: the burn-in as Greywater Light carries it. The flame rides the swell as it does on the bell buoy, and under the swell one of the Choir passes as a line of light.
links hereOra SlateKeeper of the resonance chamber: a geologist who stayed down too long, who keeps the network's deep archive in the singing crystals by a method she has never described in detail.