Chapter 14 — No One Erased It

STUB — to be drafted. POV: Lena · Location: Vellum.

Veya says the unbearable thing, plainly and with grief: "No one erased it. They simply stopped doing it, so gradually that no one noticed, and because no one ever wrote down how it worked, there was no hole left behind to find." The closures are a symptom; the network failed because everyone assumed someone else was still paying attention. The book's hinge.

Carries: the canonical purge-misread reframe (loss, not exposition). Withholds: what to do about a failure with no culprit.