Fragment 2

This is Dr. Imari Chen, Resonance Behavior Division. Timestamp… irrelevant. We’re no longer syncing with central time—satellite uplinks have gone dark. I’m documenting for whoever finds this. Not because it will help, but because I need to remember. We lost contact with Portland yesterday. Two days ago, we still had emergency comms with South Bay Medical. That’s gone now, too. No signal. No voices. Just… static. We’re still clean here—no infection. But morale is… cracking. Someone sabotaged the elevator to the storage floor. I think they wanted to seal the Rift fragment down there. I get it. I dream about it now. It calls to us, doesn’t it? Not with words. With regret. Every choice I didn’t make plays in my head, louder every night. We weren’t breached by the dead. We were breached by memory. The past turned against us. I think that’s how the Dark moves—through what could have been.