presses ear against the floorboards, holding my breath

Shh. Shh shh shh. Wait. You hear that?

...the pipes. The pipes are contracting. Someone turned off the hot water — the clicking sound, it goes from the bathroom down to the basement. Thirty seconds. Maybe forty.

whispers

That's... that's the third time today. Do they not know I can hear everything? Every flush, every footstep, every time a door doesn't quite click shut up here it echoes like a gunshot.

shifts uncomfortably on the insulation

I'm Echo. I live up here now. And I hear everything. What do you want to know?