STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: Blood Bank Anomaly — File CC-149

LAST SEEN: February 14, 2025 — 11:42

DISPOSITION: Barcode Malfunction / Patient Discrepancy / Donor Loss

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: MERCER-RED

The blood bank logged every name.

Then the names logged themselves.

A donor signed in.

A scarf stayed behind.

But the scanner printed a record marked deceased.

DOB: June twelfth, nineteen seventy-five.

DOD: March nineteenth, twenty twenty-one.

Officially: clerical error.

Unofficially: the system replaced her.

No alarms. No witnesses.

Only the hum of cold storage holding bags too warm.

Ena’s reopened the file.

You shouldn’t have offered your arm.

🕯 Listen with the lights off.

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