The operator nearly let it pass for half a second longer than usual. Night shifts were full of prank calls, restless teenagers, and people with too much time and too little sense.
Then she answered.
And the moment she heard the voice on the other end, every trace of irritation vanished.
It was a child’s voice—small, shaky, barely loud enough to travel through the line.
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