Dec764dd-3f07-436a-8b46-655afd98f6da.jpg May 2026

When he double-clicked it, the image didn't show a person or a place. It was a photograph of a handwritten note, pinned to a corkboard Elias recognized instantly. It was his father’s old office—the one that had been cleared out and renovated five years ago.

The note contained a single line of coordinates and a date: . Elias checked his watch. That was today. dec764dd-3f07-436a-8b46-655afd98f6da.jpg

He spent the next three hours driving toward the edge of the county, where the paved roads turned to gravel and then to nothing but tall, whispering grass. The coordinates led him to a rusted iron gate at the mouth of an abandoned observatory. When he double-clicked it, the image didn't show