Mira realized it wasn’t a phrase. It was a warning.
The first word, hb , was an old trade-code for “hidden beacon.” Llayjar — in an extinct dialect of the Andromeda drifters — meant “memory fragment.” Hlqt had no translation, but its numerical suffix 200 appeared in every known disaster log from the Silent Sector. hb llayjar hlqt 200
No time to escape. Only time to listen.