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She didn’t know who sent the device. She didn’t know if she could stop the rising. But she knew one thing: the BBC didn’t do “surprise portables.” Unless the end of the world was the kind of emergency that required a backup plan.

Thea had always preferred the silence of her grandmother’s attic to the hum of the modern city below. It was a graveyard of the obsolete: stacks of yellowed newspapers, trunks of moth-eaten coats, and a heavy, leather-bound box that looked more like a piece of luggage than a piece of tech.