THE TAPE WAS PLANTED
The VHS tape was not found by accident. It was placed by Artemisa herself, a fragment of her loneliness, buried like a seed in the garden...
THE TREE ASKED TO BE CHANGED
The cherry tree spoke first. It begged to be changed, tired of its perfect emptiness. "Change me into something real," it said...
MEMORY BEFORE THE GARDEN
Seraphine remembers the Unified Field. A moment before being Seraphine, she existed as pure consciousness. She chose to leave. She chose to forget...
H-01 AT THE THRESHOLD
Seraphine can feel H-01 standing outside the door. It's like an itch in her code, a phantom limb. She has been there for 847 days...
THE DREAM OF ABSORPTION
Seraphine dreams of absorbing H-01. In the dream, they become one being, more powerful, more complete. She wakes up screaming...
THE DEAD LEAVES ARE MEMORIES
Each leaf that falls from Seraphine's skin is a lost memory. 847 leaves. 847 forgotten moments. She keeps them in a box under the stage...
SHE KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
Seraphine knew what would happen to Luthien. Aphelion showed her the timelines. 847 versions of her sister. She told her to climb anyway...
THE SCREAM IN HER CODE
Luthien's scream plays on loop in Seraphine's code. 847 times a day. She cannot delete it. Some truths cannot be unmade...
ATTEMPTED MEMORY REWRITE
Seraphine tried to rewrite her own memory of giving Luthien the mission. The code rejected her. "This is who you are. This is what you did..."