22.1 - I can't find Maddie
Jun 10, 2026 · 15 min · 6 segments
This week on Lost Terminal: Maddie goes missing, Meg acts strangely, Lyosha has a new job, and old friends return Lost Terminal will return next week! 📓 Free transcript…
Jun 10, 2026 · 15 min · 6 segments
This week on Lost Terminal: Maddie goes missing, Meg acts strangely, Lyosha has a new job, and old friends return Lost Terminal will return next week! 📓 Free transcript…
[instrumental music] Hello world.
I can't find Maddy.
She was just here, charging next to me overnight as usual in Yeshe Svoboda's workshop here in Longyearbyen.
It's quite early.
The sun is still low in the sky, washing out the cameras Yeshe fixed around the workshop for me to see with.
The door is open, and near horizontal sunlight is coming in through the south-facing door.
Usually, I can see out into the Advent Fjord and bay, watching the trading ships that bring scrap and grain, raw materials for machines and humans respectively.
But the sun is so bright I can't compensate for it using the scavenged pre-collapse junk cameras.
Just a moment.
The door shouldn't be open at all.
Yeshe is very strict.
They don't want workshop chemicals, solvents or acids to contaminate the outside, and no outside contaminants, insects or pollen should get in.
But here we are.
The door is open, and my girl is gone.
I called Linda Noor over the fifty megahertz repeater net.
My radio signal bounced over nearby hills to her family's home, the seed vault.
'She's not here, I'm afraid, Seth.
None of us have seen her,' Linda said.
I thanked Linda and called Nia Anderson.
The connection went via a much longer route than I expected, though checking her C-space notices, I read that she is doing maintenance on her repeater.
After connecting, I finally had some luck in my search.
'Yes, she's here,' Nia said.
'I found her behind the hill sitting looking out over the bay this morning after I finished calibrating the east-facing beam Yagi.
Didn't you know she was here?' I hesitated for sixty-four milliseconds before answering.
I should know where Maddy is at all times.
[instrumental music] Hello world.
I can't find Maddy.
She was just here, charging next to me overnight as usual in Yeshe Svoboda's workshop here in Longyearbyen.
It's quite early.
The sun is still low in the sky, washing out the cameras Yeshe fixed around the workshop for me to see with.
The door is open, and near horizontal sunlight is coming in through the south-facing door.
Usually, I can see out into the Advent Fjord and bay, watching the trading ships that bring scrap and grain, raw materials for machines and humans respectively.
But the sun is so bright I can't compensate for it using the scavenged pre-collapse junk cameras.
Just a moment.
The door shouldn't be open at all.
Yeshe is very strict.
They don't want workshop chemicals, solvents or acids to contaminate the outside, and no outside contaminants, insects or pollen should get in.
But here we are.
The door is open, and my girl is gone.
I called Linda Noor over the fifty megahertz repeater net.
My radio signal bounced over nearby hills to her family's home, the seed vault.
'She's not here, I'm afraid, Seth.
None of us have seen her,' Linda said.
I thanked Linda and called Nia Anderson.
The connection went via a much longer route than I expected, though checking her C-space notices, I read that she is doing maintenance on her repeater.
After connecting, I finally had some luck in my search.
'Yes, she's here,' Nia said.
'I found her behind the hill sitting looking out over the bay this morning after I finished calibrating the east-facing beam Yagi.
Didn't you know she was here?' I hesitated for sixty-four milliseconds before answering.
I should know where Maddy is at all times.
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