🌈 The Fractal Story Engine | Time & Reality | (19) TR-004-E1
Recovered from Vault IX-F: fragment 0734-B
Classification: Contradiction Pattern / Chrono-Reversal Echo
Origin: Unknown
Begin transmission:
They say the First Dream was not imagined but remembered.
And that the act of waking fractured the whole.
The Elders of Unsleep kept scrolls in their ribcages.
Ink made from the marrow of those who dreamed in circles.
You would hear them chanting beneath sleep:
"We are the scaffolds of a world that refuses to dream itself whole."
In the Temple of the Crooked Hour, a glass bell rings every time a child forgets how to fall upward.
None have entered the temple.
But all have heard the bell.
There is a gate with no threshold, drawn in salt and bloodlight.
To cross it is to vanish into a version of yourself that was once dreamed but never born.
One record speaks of the boy who dreamt in reverse.
He drew maps of undoing and placed them under pillows.
Entire cities collapsed into song.
Another speaks of a girl with no name who painted futures inside the spines of sleeping lions.
When the lions roared, three centuries wept backward.
A voice, poorly recorded, looped and fragmented, can be heard within the file.
It says:
"I thought I was waking.
But I was only walking deeper into the lie."
Static.
Then a final glyph flashes:
𐤔
Interpretation unknown.
End transmission.
Archive incomplete.
Do not attempt to verify.