The coordinates in the notes pointed to a service mast on the outskirts of town—an old telecom tower that had outlived three providers and a municipal plan to replace it with fiber. Theo drove, the sunrise blushing the fields as his old pickup croaked uphill. The mast’s paint was flayed like dried skin. At its base, behind tidy cable boxes and a padlocked hatch, there was a shallow depression where the grass had been trampled.
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