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IZRAMITH WOKE abruptly when it was still pitch dark. There had been a noise, but it had stopped now, and she had woken up too late to hear what it was. Right now, all she could hear was her pounding heart and the roaring of blood in her ears.
And see nothing.
Except—
A faint thrumming sound made a continuous whisper in the background.
—a red light blinked on the motion sensor.
Fuck.
She crawled off her mat, bumbling around randomly placed shoes and bags in the cave, and activated her comm screen. The glare of it made her vision blurry. She blinked away sleep—
It was definitely the motion alarm. The screen said activity detected.
She switched to the infrared channel.
Most of the screen was dark grey, with a few lighter spots where boulders still radiated the heat of the day.
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