It was late October, 2019, the kind of cold that settles in your bones before the snow even comes. I was pulling a solo week at Smoke Creek Station, the most remote outpost in the eastern district. The first thing that went was the satellite phone — a flicker, then nothing. Then the VHF radio, the one that should have worked even if the world ended, just... stopped. No static, no hum. Just silence. I figured it was a geomagnetic storm, the kind they warn about in the briefing packets nobody reads. But at midnight, someone started calling my name from the repeater tower. Not over the radio. Through the tower itself. A voice that knew things it shouldn't — my middle name, the scar on my knee, the dream I had the night before. And then it asked me to open the door. The story that follows is what I wrote in my logbook before I burned it. It's the only record left.