>>> FILE LOAD: ENTRY 06D – PERSONAL LOG: “K-HORIZON” ARCHIVIST ARCHIVE
>>> AUTHOR: RETIRED DATA HANDLER SERA LUN // FORMERLY: CONCORD DOCUMENT CONTROL (CLASSIFIED BRANCH)
>>> FILE TYPE: PERSONAL JOURNAL // RECOVERED FROM ABANDONED MEMORY STICK
>>> TIMESTAMP: YC125.317.10:02 GST
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[BEGIN ENTRY – RECONSTRUCTED FROM CORRUPTED FILE BLOCKS]
It’s strange how quiet it is out here.
When you retire, you think the silence will bring peace.
Instead, all you hear is what you used to hide.
Yesterday, my old relay node flickered online—Node K-HORIZON.
Dead since YC91. A logging ghost I helped build, back when we still called them “perception filters,” not directives.
It pushed me one file. No return tag. No checksum. Just a pulse and a glyph.
The glyph said:
> “T.SOL.8057”
I haven’t seen that in over thirty years.
The first time it showed up, we were told it was **artifact noise.**
A glitch from when the Gate collapsed. We were instructed to reclassify it. We did.
Then it showed up again.
Every time someone got curious, they were moved. Or erased.
We didn’t ask questions. We just rerouted truth into noise. That’s what GREY was, back then.
But this time… I opened it.
It was a voice. Not a message. A memory.
It said:
> “I am still here. Beneath you. Inside your sky.”
I don’t know what we buried.
But we buried it well enough that even remembering **how we forgot** has been forgotten.
And now the cracks are showing.
Someone will ask what “8057” means.
Someone else will lie.
And the system will break trying to keep the lie straight.
I don’t think we’re going to survive the remembering.
But maybe we shouldn’t.
— Sera L.
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NOTES:
- Memory stick recovered from Lunar 1 shuttle dock salvage
- Matched audio fragment overlaps 81% with ENTRY 09C
- Author listed as deceased, but death record lacks timestamp
>>> TAGGED: ORIGINFALL – LONG-TERM RETENTION FAILURE
>>> CROSS-LINK: ENTRIES 01D, 02F, 09C
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