Sound of silence

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'What is it?'
'Stop talking.'
'What?'
'Just shut up.'
He hears his brother step closer to him and then stop. They stand beside each other listening. For a moment there is no sound at all.
'I can't hear anything,' Golom says.
Exactly.
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KJ Orr - The Inland Sea

Just twenty minutes after reading something very similar in Early Riser by Jasper Fforde.