Twenty seconds later, the prediction market prices disappear from the LCD monitors above Merrin's patient.

"Exception," sings a loud female voice on the overhead speaker, using a legally restricted prosody and melody.*  "Tick five."**

(*)  When this sort of thing happens in movies, for example, the actors use a slightly different but clearly distinguishable prosody and melody.  This preserves the ability for somebody to shout 'Exception, the movie theatre is on fire' and have that announcement be clearly distinguishable by sound from an in-movie event.

(**)  Meaning:  Everyone has five seconds to prepare themselves to hear the rest of this announcement.

Twenty seconds later, the prediction market prices disappear from the LCD monitors above Merrin's patient.

"Exception," sings a loud female voice on the overhead speaker, using a legally restricted prosody and melody.*  "Tick five."**

(*)  When this sort of thing happens in movies, for example, the actors use a slightly different but clearly distinguishable prosody and melody.  This preserves the ability for somebody to shout 'Exception, the movie theatre is on fire' and have that announcement be clearly distinguishable by sound from an in-movie event.

(**)  Meaning:  Everyone has five ticks to prepare themselves to hear the rest of this announcement.