Cassian Vale has spent years trusting one thing above everything else: the timestamp.As a senior research physicist working with KAIROS-5, an experimental machine designed to manipulate and observe the boundaries of temporal reality, Cassian understands better than most that time should never contradict itself.Then, during a routine experiment, 307 seconds disappear.The laboratory records show that nothing happened between 14:33:18 and 14:38:25. No malfunction. No power failure. No missing data. The system simply insists that those five minutes never existed.But Cassian remembers them.At first, he believes it is a technical anomaly. Then he discovers something far more disturbing: the machine's records are beginning to disagree with his own memories.A person he remembers dying is alive in the official records.A conversation he clearly remembers never happened.And somewhere inside KAIROS-5, a sequence of events appears to have been recorded before they actually occurred.As Cassian digs deeper, he discovers that KAIROS-5 may not be measuring time at all. It may be replacing it.Every experiment creates another contradiction. Every contradiction leaves behind another fragment of a reality that should not exist.Soon Cassian is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: the world around him may already have been rewritten, and his memories may be the only evidence of whatဟ was lost.The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous the question becomes.If reality can be rewritten before the ink dries, how can anyone prove what was ever real?