Maris Kestrel finds the hollow ivory domino. The town erased everyone who touched it.

On June 11, 1985, Maris Kestrel finds the hollow ivory domino inside the municipal seed vault.

The hollow ivory domino carries Maris Kestrel's fingerprint beneath its surface.

At 1:17 a.m., Maris Kestrel records rain falling only indoors.

The recording predates Maris Kestrel's birth by forty years.

Then a dead technician asks Maris Kestrel to look underneath.

Beneath the hollow ivory domino, Maris Kestrel discovers a numbered human tooth.

The number matches a locked cabinet in the seed vault under Sable Ward.

Inside, Maris Kestrel finds payroll cards for people nobody remembers.

Each forgotten worker signed the same crooked surname as Maris Kestrel.

A fresh card lists Maris Kestrel's shift as beginning tonight.

The lights inside the seed vault under Sable Ward turn violet one row at a time.

Every violet lamp reveals handprints moving beneath the floor while Maris Kestrel watches.

Maris Kestrel follows those handprints toward a door painted as concrete.

The door opens onto a copy of the seed vault under Sable Ward filled with warm dust.

A clock in the copied room runs through June 11, 1985 again and again.

At each repetition, the hollow ivory domino appears closer to Maris Kestrel's chest.

A ledger identifies the copied room as the witness nursery while Maris Kestrel watches.

The final ledger entry states that the school preserved memories inside animal eyes while Maris Kestrel watches.

Behind Maris Kestrel, a nursery cot begins rocking without a child.

The blanket rises. A smaller Maris Kestrel opens its eyes and points at the hollow ivory domino.