<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"/>