A high-pitched whine erupted from its speaker, then a voice—not a radio voice, but a human one, raw and panicked: "—any station, any station, this is solo hiker on the South Ridge, my partner is down, we need immediate medevac—"
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The Kirisun PT3600 sat in its cradle, warm and humming. The programming software minimized itself to the taskbar, its icon a tiny, blinking eye. A high-pitched whine erupted from its speaker, then
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And in the distance, through the static of the rain, he heard a voice that sounded exactly like his own start counting down from 480.
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