"Don't look at her eyes. He can see through them."Inside the Bell Spire, the tour is the trap. The little girl — Wren, borrowed from the guard barracks — leads them in before the doors clang shut. The ramp loops back on itself; Mira, impossibly, knows the real route, the maintenance door, and a four-digit code she types without looking at the keypad. Floor two explains the silence: a long hall of dusty glass tubes, each holding a tiny wooden chair and a tiny blue blanket, and a wall of metal plates scratched with children's names. Lio. Anya. Tobin. Sai. Pell. Elowen lays out the truth about the Children's Incident of Year 301: no plague — the Authority harvested children who could carry Aether in their blood as living batteries. Three hundred and twelve went in. Six came out.A small silver plate by the stairs names the Spire's designer: Dr. Selene Raine — Elowen's mother, dead since Elowen was nine in what she was told was a work accident. And at the last, smallest tube, under a lopsided crayon star, Mira stops dead and begins humming a tune she has never learned: four notes up, four down — the same lullaby Kaizen's mother hums in the market, an old song of the Lower Ring. Mira insists she's from the year 5555. So why is this place written into her hands, her feet, her throat? Three minutes left. In the control room waits a glass pillar with a living blue flame inside it, a leashed captain standing guard — and the red-haired man himself, stepping out of the shadows in the flesh at last.4444: The Last Error — an original audio thriller by James Bell Jr, narrated by Smooth. In the domed city of Eden-44, a street thief's hands ignite with raw Aether, a girl arrives carrying memories of a future that may never have existed, and a secret three hundred years old starts counting down. New episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays. Start from Episode 1.🎧 Also on Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/7r6x6qzm · Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/12a32bed-e63f-4b0d-a708-fce4d022399c · iHeart: https://iheart.com/podcast/348345909/Follow 4444: The Last Error so the next episode finds you.