
Sofia tilted her head slightly.
“It’s not random,” she murmured.
The room froze.
Adrian’s eyes narrowed. “What?”
“The symbols,” she said, moving closer despite her mother’s hushed warning. “They aren’t symbols. They’re spaced like music.”
One of the returning experts scoffed from the doorway. “Sir, she’s a child.”
Adrian didn’t break eye contact with her.
“Music?”
Sofia nodded thoughtfully.
“My grandpa was a piano tuner. He taught me how notes pause. These markings? They aren’t letters. They’re rests.”
The silence grew heavier.
Adrian stepped aside.
“Show me.”
Elena looked alarmed. “Sir, she’s just a kid—”
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