However, I planned ahead for this, remember? So I'm still technically on schedule! I was able to write in the car on the way there and back, hence why I managed to stay on track and am ending the night slightly ahead.
Day 21: 593 words written
Day 22: 0 words written (but a fun photoshoot!)
Day 23: 880 words written
Total words written: 38,517
Excerpt:
Clasping my hands behind my back I shifted my weight from one foot to the other. Be careful, Alice. “Since the tech department is so busy I’ve been trying to handle all the minor problems in MLab.”His left eyebrow twitched.“However, I ran across an odd glitch that I can’t solve.”I had his full attention now and I thought I could feel several more pairs of eyes and ears trying to listen in.“What was the glitch?” he asked, switching from bored to full troubleshooting mode.“I ran into it while checking the recordings we have. You remember the big fuss recently because we recorded signals which sounded like a language?”“Of course. Please continue.”“I went to pull up the first recording to analyze it once more and it wouldn’t play properly. The file kept jumping and skipping so much that the audio was garbled.”“Isn’t that just a case of a corrupt file?” His interest was visibly draining.“That’s what I thought at first as well. So, of course we keep multiple copies of our recordings. However, when I checked each of these files they also exhibited the same behavior. Even my own personal copy was damaged. I thought that perhaps the recording system was at fault. But every other recording before and since then is fine—except for the other two recordings we have on file in the same language.” I sketched quotation marks in the air around the word with my fingers.“That is certainly odd.”“But the oddest part is that each of the other two recordings exhibited less noticeable glitching with the most recent being the clearest. And when I checked every copy they all exhibited the same level of glitching as the original file.”
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