I tell Nada of the harmonic camp - not as abandoned as it first appeared. I tell them of its electronic inhabitants - th

I tell Nada of the harmonic camp - not as abandoned as it first appeared. I tell them of its electronic inhabitants - these cloaked "Autophage" - and their melodic language, so similar to Korvax, yet quite distinct. Nada is very quiet as they listen. When I finish speaking, they remain so quiet and so still that I wonder if they have forgotten I am standing here. They are difficult to read, sometimes. Finally, they speak.

Nada wonders...

They trail off, shaking their head.

No. Nada will not wonder. Nada will understand. Our data is insufficient to know if this pattern is familiar. Yet / also, Nada thinks of terminal-echoes. Thinks of Polo's echo-Construct. Thinks of older stories, before Nada's divergence. Nada cannot help it. They are just thoughts. We should try to understand Builder-Entities. Echo-Construct may know this pattern better than Nada.