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The town council attempts the binding ritual with iron circles and salt barriers, but Silas's voice on the recording sounds uncertain, describing people who look unfinished—then he breaks through with a terrible revelation: the recordings aren't documentation but incantations, and Margaret isn't listening to history, she's CREATING it with every recording she plays. Margaret discovers all the 1974 newspapers are blank until she looks at them, the text appearing as she creates retroactive history, while Mayor Davidson calls to say he's transforming into the scaled creature because she heard him that way.

The twenty-five horrors she's created manifest NOW—Lucy Henderson and the hungry children pressing against her windows, the half-formed Davidson-thing, Clara still pregnant, all freshly created and desperate—revealing Margaret isn't a witness but a broken god speaking nightmares into existence. The created horrors beg her to either complete all thirty recordings so the Pattern collapses under its own weight, or play them backward to unspeak them, as Margaret discovers the record player has always had settings for CREATE and UNCREATE. The final revelation: Margaret isn't Margaret Blackwood but the void where she should be—the missing thirty-first family, the mouth that speaks reality—and all her creations are begging her to complete them or erase them, but not leave them half-real and suffering.

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