In a warehouse lit by open flame, Detective Mertens comes face to face with a painting long thought extinct—until it moves. And then something steps out.

“I’d only heard whispers—what one might look like. But this... this is something else.”

Shortform speculative fiction told through voice logs and transmissions from outlawed futures.

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