Maris Aster finds the hollow copper tuning fork. The town erased everyone who touched it.

On June 13, 1987, Maris Aster finds the hollow copper tuning fork inside the sleep language laboratory.

The hollow copper tuning fork carries Maris Aster's fingerprint beneath its surface.

At 1:17 a.m., Maris Aster records a weekday missing from every calendar.

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

Then a dead technician asks Maris Aster to look underneath.

Beneath the hollow copper tuning fork, Maris Aster discovers a numbered human tooth.

The number matches a locked cabinet in the sleep lab under Sable Ward.

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

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

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

The lights inside the sleep lab under Sable Ward turn violet one row at a time.

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

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

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

A clock in the copied room runs through June 13, 1987 again and again.

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

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

The final ledger entry states that the apiary fed on unsolved grief while Maris Aster watches.

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

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