Eli discovers something impossible: one of seven grooves etched into the Atrium floor twenty-five days ago has vanished completely not covered, not scarred, but erased as though it never existed. The Core doesn't hide its work. It subtracts it. As the building's power to rewrite reality itself becomes undeniable, Maya makes a parallel discovery in the Terminal that forces the observers to confront a terrifying question: what else has the Core already erased from their history?

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