·5/10/2026
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Found this written in my old journal. I don't remember writing it. [Story]
DAY 312.
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That's the date on the manifest. Next to his name.
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Chen, David. Status: COLLECTED.
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Two days before he died.
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Except — we buried someone on Day 315. We stood in the rain and said his name and put him in the ground. I watched Marcus carry the body. I watched Rivera close his eyes.
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The body in the ground isn't Chen.
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Rivera said it quietly, from the passenger seat, fourteen hours north of Fort Hope, like he'd been holding it in his chest since Day 312 and just ran out of room.
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"No. It isn't."
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We kept driving.
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Posting entries from an ongoing series — REBIRTH: ZERO HOUR. GrimScribe profile if you want to start from EP01.
>
That's the date on the manifest. Next to his name.
>
Chen, David. Status: COLLECTED.
>
Two days before he died.
>
Except — we buried someone on Day 315. We stood in the rain and said his name and put him in the ground. I watched Marcus carry the body. I watched Rivera close his eyes.
>
The body in the ground isn't Chen.
>
Rivera said it quietly, from the passenger seat, fourteen hours north of Fort Hope, like he'd been holding it in his chest since Day 312 and just ran out of room.
>
"No. It isn't."
>
We kept driving.
>
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Posting entries from an ongoing series — REBIRTH: ZERO HOUR. GrimScribe profile if you want to start from EP01.
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