CLASSIFICATION: Psychological / Temporal Anomaly (Unconfirmed) STATUS: Open

And then the string: 16-572217-45 MIN .

“You have 45 minutes. Do not use them to run. Use them to remember what you lost before you became it.”

I’m writing this on the back of the third receipt. My watch stopped at 44 minutes, 59 seconds. Lena is gone. She didn’t scream. She just stopped, like the notes said. One moment she was beside me, the next she was a heat shimmer and a smell of burned sugar.

Date: 10 June 2023 (continued) Time: 17:13

Below it: 10 06 2023 . The day they vanished.

I don’t answer. I’m counting. We entered at 16:57, local. The file says response time was 45 MIN from the first hang-up. 45 minutes from the first call to patrol arrival.

Date: 10 June 2023 Time: 17:45