STATUS: COLD CASE

SUBJECT: Ortega, Luis — Male, 48 / Velez, Sandra — Female, 35 / Kwan, Henry — Male, 27

LAST SEEN: City Aqueduct System, Section Delta-9 / March 23, 23:04 hrs / Engineering Log (restricted)

DISPOSITION: Inspection Dispatch / Pressure Anomaly / Audio Interference / Personnel Missing

RECLASSIFIED: SIGNAL CODE: ECHO-R

The engineers signed in.

They never signed out.

The water shifted without waves.

Gauges froze, trembling like they wanted to scream.

Then the names began.

“…Velez. Sandra. Status: unreturned…”

“…Ortega. Luis. Await retrieval…”

“…Kwan. Henry. Entered. Not returned…”

The report blames comms failure.

But comms don’t bleed names into condensation.

What no one expected—

was the roll call still going after the voices were gone.

Ena’s reopened the case.

You shouldn’t have stepped inside.

🌊 Listen after midnight.

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