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When Lila Cald accepts a winter assignment at Northpoint Atmospheric Station, she imagines stillness, a routine of measurements and meals, the predictable scraping of wind against metal. Instead, the quiet develops a temperament of its own. Objects shift. Doors forget to stay closed. The radio murmurs strange arithmetic in the dark.

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Her companions, Hal and Anders, behave as though nothing is amiss—though their calm begins to resemble something older than familiarity, and their habits follow patterns she cannot entirely name. The station keeps its own counsel, its logs neat, its rooms obediently arranged, as if preparing itself for guests.

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As the white hour thickens and the world outside dissolves into sameness, Lila begins to notice how easily a person can be miscounted, how simple it is for a presence to fade, how quickly a place may decide who belongs to it.

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Cold Signal is a quiet, disquieting tale of winter, grief, and the subtle ways a place may change its occupants, one by one, without ever raising its voice.