Jay didn’t share it. He smashed the phone with a hammer, then drove the pieces to three different dumpsters across town.

He grabbed a ceramic bowl from the kitchen, flipped it over, and slammed it onto the phone like a bell jar over a bomb.

From the speakers, quietly: “Propagation started. You are node 7,041.”

Not through the speaker—through the vibrator motor , modulated into harsh, distorted words: