Txrajnl.dat -

The buoy hadn't recorded him. It was still recording . And now that he’d opened the file, he was part of its loop.

“What the hell?”

A timestamp flickered in the corner: last_edit: 0.3 seconds from now.

txrajnl.dat – copying to local consciousness. do not delete.

The file opened. Not as text, not as numbers. As a single, slowly rotating 3D schematic of a human brain. No—not a brain. His brain. Kaelen recognized the unique cortical scar from a childhood seizure he’d never told anyone about.