Page 85 of The Examiner

Date: 23 February 2024

Subject: Your MA students

Some of your group are hanging around the studio after hours fiddling with an old radio they keep hidden at the back of the cupboard (behind the old frames). Heaven knows what they’re trying to do, but they wait until all us technicians are gone before they start. If their activities mean our department encounters extra clean-up work, then you will be hearing from me.

Griff

To: Griff Technician (Maintenance)

From: Gela Nathaniel

Date: 23 February 2024

Subject: Re: Your MA students

Bless! They’re so keen on their final project. I’m sure they won’t cause any trouble, but thanks for letting me know.

Gela

Doodle message group [Private] Patrick and Ludya, 24 February 2024:

Patrick Bright

I’ve tried talking to Jonathan. It’s hopeless. That poor voice. We’ve got to tell someone, so he can be rescued.

Ludya Parak

They never say where they are, so what can we do?

Patrick Bright

What do you think it is?

Ludya Parak

An old radio drama? An actor’s voice? Whatever, it’s Jonathan’s problem. We shouldn’t have that radio, you shouldn’t have got it working. It wasn’t in our plan. It’s distracting everyone and wasting our time.

Patrick Bright

Jonathan said something very strange. In that museum, materials don’t age. He said this radio could be a prototype from any time within the last hundred years and, if it is, then that’s the exact time Tesla and Edison were working on machines to contact the dead.

Ludya Parak has left the group.

Patrick Bright

The dark place our man wants to escape from. He could be in limbo, either unaware he’s passed away or, for some reason, unable to reach the Other Side.

Doodle message group [Private] Gela and Cameron, 26 February 2024:

Cameron Wesley

Long story short, the sourcing team have a radio they should never have taken from the museum. If the boss gets it back, no questions will be asked.

Gela Nathaniel

Griff mentioned this. It’s in the studio cupboard.

Cameron Wesley