Daniel Alarcón
speaker
2,010 appearances
36 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2022
last heard 10 Jul
Daniel Alarcón’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When the sky finally started to gray towards sunrise, I knew what we had to do.
And I knew it the way you know a measurement you've checked three times.
The story Eleanor told me had the answer folded inside it if you turned it the right way.
The cook rang the bell and the thing answered and came closer, drawn to the call, answering the call because that's what the bell does.
It calls and the thing comes.
Three nights of it coming closer.
By now it was close.
It was right outside.
and a thing that is called by a bell can be answered by a bell the cook had it backward ringing in the dark in the night feeding the thing more call drawing it the whole way in but there's an hour when the dark loses at sunrise the night thing is at the very end of its rope
close enough to answer but not strong enough to come through and if you ring then if you ring the cabin bell at first light with the thing right up against the walls you make it answer when it has no strength left to do anything but answer you close the call you ring it shut
I can't tell you how I knew the mechanism would hold.
I'll be honest about that.
I didn't know.
I reasoned it the way I reason anything, from the evidence I had.
And the evidence said the dark made it strong, and the light made it weak, and the bell was the seam between the thing and the world, and you don't leave a seam open.
You close it when your enemy is weakest.
So at the first real grey of dawn, with the eastern sky going pale through the front windows, I went to the door, to Lowell's bell, the one bolted to the wall with four lag bolts by a careful frightened man, who I now understood had hung it there for exactly this, as the thing you ring once, at the end, to send it back.
I told Wesley the plan.
He nodded.
He understood it.
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