Episode 4: “Echoes of the Deleted”Sometimes, the past doesn’t stay erased. It rewrites itself.

Episode 4: “Echoes of the Deleted”

Sometimes, the past doesn’t stay erased. It rewrites itself.

Rey sat frozen in front of his laptop. The system log showed a 24-hour jump—no shutdowns, no reboots, just a blank stretch of time… as if the entire day had been deleted.

He turned to Skeena. “Do you remember anything from yesterday?”

She blinked. “What yesterday?”

Aariz was the only one who remembered flashes—strange lights, a low frequency hum, and what he described as voices without mouths whispering equations into his head. They met at Rey’s home lab and began tracking everything through Rey’s encrypted logs.

That’s when they saw it—a shadowed figure appearing in all three of their devices’ camera feeds at exactly the same time. The feeds weren’t connected, but somehow... the same frame existed in all of them.

Skeena dug deeper. She discovered an app no one remembered installing: Mirror.exe. Every attempt to delete it caused the screen to blur, as if the device itself refused. Aariz tried force-erasing the program and blacked out instantly.

When he came to, he repeated one line over and over:

“The deleted become echoes... and echoes learn to scream.”

Terrified but determined, Rey opened Mirror.exe—and saw not his reflection, but a version of himself with hollow eyes and glitching skin, whispering backwards code.

Suddenly, the app crashed—and all their devices rebooted to factory settings. Every photo, message, and file from the past month was wiped clean.

But on Rey’s desk, his analog notebook flipped open on its own. Three words written in ink that wasn’t his:

"You're already inside."