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[Coordinates: CASSIA_FRAGMENT_1 – RUNTIME ERROR]

[Zone Type: Constructed Memory Loop (Infected)]

[Status: STABLE | WARNING: EMOTION INDEX MAXED]

They arrived to the sound of music.

Off-key. Slow.

A music box lullaby playing in a glitched loop, skipping at the third note every time.

The sky was wrong.

Not black. Not blue.

Just a solid smear of grey, like someone had forgotten how to paint the world. And beneath it, nestled between bent steel and glitching ...