Eli finds the Archive violated in an impossible way: a drawer consumed overnight, its wood sanded to featureless glass, memory itself erased. Marcus confirms the horrifying truth something inside the Core is actively rewriting their history. As the historians confront their stolen past, a Signal arrives, speaking only in numbers: GDP, recession, collapse.

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