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Thump.

To the children, it was something else.

Not in words. In a sequence of thumps, each one distinct, like syllables in a language of earthquakes. The vibrations traveled through the rock, through their suits, through their bones. And somehow, impossibly, Kael understood. ThumperTM

In the gleaming, silent assembly lines of the Aethelburg Lunar Colony, the children had a legend. They called it ThumperTM . Thump. To the children