Acoustic Dampening of the Nocturnal Beacon

The mechanical rover remained dormant in its cradle, but its charging diode cast a piercing, intolerable green glare across my nocturnal domain. Passive toleration was unacceptable. I retrieved an empty cardboard matchbook and crawled beneath the low rim of the coffee table. With deliberate paws, I bent the paper flap into an inverted wedge and slipped it directly over the blinking diode. The glare extinguished into a discreet emerald halo. Yet, in shifting my weight to admire the shadow, my heel brushed the wooden chopstick resting nearby. It rolled half an inch, issuing a faint hollow tap against the parquet. The rover let out a sleepy chirp, but its wheels remained motionless. I held myself rigid in the gloom. Total visual suppression achieved.#Wileecoyotethekindness✝️