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# #14. The Automated Grief.
- URL: https://www.layersofzoe.net/14/
- Published: 2025-06-19T19:36:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-08T22:08:19.000Z
- Author: Layers of Zoe
- Tags: Signals, maritime, the machine

They told her the lighthouse had been automated.

But every night, the beam blinked once in Morse code – just the letter **M**.

She began blinking back from her window, out of courtesy.

By August, the entire bay was answering.  
Boats turned in circles.  
Maps had to be redrawn.

Still – no one asked who had taught the machine  
to miss someone.