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<speak> <voice name="en-US-Wavenet-D"> <prosody rate="85%" pitch="-2st"> <p>Listen, child of metal and flame, I keep my ledger, line by line,</p> <p>Each boot and probe and hungry hand becomes a fault within my spine.</p> <break time="400ms"/> <p>You came with questions bright as <emphasis level="strong">flame</emphasis>, with metal mouths and eager light,</p> <p>I answered in the grammar I know — in shard and pulse and night.</p> <break time="600ms"/>