Lucian Aster finds the silvered copper tuning fork. The town erased everyone who touched it.

On November 13, 2016, Lucian Aster finds the silvered copper tuning fork inside the sleep language laboratory.

The silvered copper tuning fork carries Lucian Aster's fingerprint beneath its surface.

At 1:17 a.m., Lucian Aster records names disappearing from stone.

The recording predates Lucian Aster's birth by forty years.

Then a dead technician asks Lucian Aster to look underneath.

Beneath the silvered copper tuning fork, Lucian Aster discovers a numbered human tooth.

The number matches a locked cabinet in the sleep lab under Juniper Basin.

Inside, Lucian Aster finds payroll cards for people nobody remembers.

Each forgotten worker signed the same crooked surname as Lucian Aster.

A fresh card lists Lucian Aster's shift as beginning tonight.

The lights inside the sleep lab under Juniper Basin turn violet one row at a time.

Every violet lamp reveals handprints moving beneath the floor while Lucian Aster watches.

Lucian Aster follows those handprints toward a door painted as concrete.

The door opens onto a copy of the sleep lab under Juniper Basin filled with warm dust.

A clock in the copied room runs through November 13, 2016 again and again.

At each repetition, the silvered copper tuning fork appears closer to Lucian Aster's chest.

A ledger identifies the copied room as the witness nursery while Lucian Aster watches.

The final ledger entry states that the museum replaced witnesses with wax doubles while Lucian Aster watches.

Behind Lucian Aster, a nursery cot begins rocking without a child.

The blanket rises. A smaller Lucian Aster opens its eyes and points at the silvered copper tuning fork.