CHAPTER 26
I’ve felt it before—right before Brianna died, right before I found the first note in my locker, right before I started forgetting things I knew I’d never lived through. But this quiet isn’t peaceful. It’s the hush of a scream that never got to leave the mouth. A silence sharp enough to bleed you out.
I’m back in the hidden server room, the one behind the old maintenance closet in Blackwood’s east wing. Dusty and unused, the walls sweat with age and rot. I’ve been here before, but not like this. Now I have the admin key—stolen from the drive Gloria never meant for me to unlock. Now I know where to look.
The screen’s glow cuts through the dark like a scalpel. My fingers tremble over the keyboard. I enter the access code: GL-RN.718X. It unlocks something far older than this bui
