At the moment when the horse’s belly opened and the hidden soldiers spilled into the dark, the projector hiccupped. For a breathless second, the reel stuttered, and the image wavered. Emre steadied the machine, hands steady despite the flutter in his throat. The film resumed, and with it came the sense that something else had been waiting—an address in the margins of the reel, a signature on the oilcloth: "For those who listen."