What happens when your past memories start to unfold and you start questioning your existence. Something similar happened with Nero.

The Archive has never made mistakes. It records every confirmed moment of history, every stable branch of time, every reality humanity has been allowed to remember. Within its endless halls of servers and steel, nothing is lost—nothing is forgotten. At least, that’s what Nero Vale believed.

A junior archivist living a quiet, predictable life, Nero has spent years cataloguing fragments of broken timelines, safely removed from the events they record. His world is built on routine, logic, and the comforting certainty that the past cannot reach back. But one night, the Archive breaks its own rules.

A record appears that should not exist.
A classification without meaning.
A name that should never have been stored.

And suddenly, the machine designed to observe time begins to observe him.

As unexplained anomalies ripple through the Archive, Nero finds himself at the center of something the system cannot define—something that responds to his presence, reacts to his thoughts, and grows stronger each time he tries to understand it. The more he searches for answers, the more reality begins to behave as though it remembers him… differently.

Guided—and watched—by Helia Krusate, an analyst who knows far more than she admits, Nero is forced to confront the possibility that the Archive is not merely a passive observer of history, but a living structure with its own memory, intent, and secrets buried beneath layers of recorded truth.

In a place where timelines fracture silently and identities can be rewritten without warning, Nero must question everything he knows about existence, causality, and the nature of self. Because some records are not meant to be uncovered.

And some lives were never meant to exist.

As the boundary between data and reality begins to blur, one question echoes through the endless halls of the Archive:

What happens when the past refuses to stay recorded—and starts looking back?

The Archive is a secret facility believed to exist outside normal authority. Officially, it is a system that records timeline data—events from the past, present, and possible realities. Within it are living timelines, which continue to update in real time, and dead or erased timelines, preserved only as records after collapse or deletion.


What the Archive truly stores is never fully explained. Beyond events, it appears to preserve traces of people and identities tied to those timelines. No one knows who built it, who controls it, or what its real purpose is—not even those who work inside it. Some secrets remain hidden… even from the story itself.


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