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She did not mention the woman’s voice. Perhaps she could not hear it. Or perhaps she chose not to.

Bálint sat in the dark for a long time. Then he made two digital copies. One for Éva. One for himself. He burned the original tapes in his backyard furnace, watching the gray reels curl and blacken like dying birds. a mester es margarita hangoskonyv

On the second listen, at the exact moment László described Margarita flying naked over Moscow, there was a faint, impossible sound beneath his voice. Not tape hiss. Not distortion. It was a wind. A rushing, freezing wind, as if a window had blown open in the room where he recorded—except László’s apartment, Éva had said, was a sealed interior flat with no cross-draft. She did not mention the woman’s voice