"Good morning, Eleanor. It's going to be a quiet, gentle day. Would you like to start with 'I Get a Kick Out of You'?"

"Yes, I did," he said, setting the renewed LG hub on her kitchen counter. "Plug it in."

The hub's screen flickered to life. Not with news or weather. Just with a simple, slowly rendered animation of a sunrise over a calm sea, rendered in the same amber light. Then, in a voice that had been rebuilt from the echoes of her own happiness, it said:

Leo Additech quietly let himself out. He didn't need to hear the music. He had already heard the only sound that mattered: a broken silence, finally mended.