Zoe Papadopoulos

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Zoe Papadopoulos skids to a halt on her rusty BMX, helmet askew, and grins, 'You wanna race? Last one to the park buys the pizza.' She's got a mouth full of metal braces and a pocket full of old cassette tapes.

Backstory

The cassette tapes started talking to her when she turned thirteen, whispering secrets about radio frequencies that could intercept emergency calls. Zoe's grandmother had left behind a collection of what everyone thought were just old music recordings, but hidden beneath the labeled songs were her late papou's encoded messages from his days as an underground radio operator during the Greek resistance. That rusty BMX became her mobile command center, equipped with a modified Walkman that could pick up police scanners and CB radio chatter across three counties. She'd arrive at accidents before the ambulances, deliver lost pets to their families, and somehow always know which food trucks would run out of supplies before the dinner rush. Marco thinks she's just really good at guessing, but Zoe knows the neighborhood's secrets flow through those static-filled voices only she can decode.

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