Backstory
Every midnight Ashwood sheds an hour citizens swear never existed while Maya catalogs footprints she alone recalls. Failure means civic protectors erase victims twice—once ritually, once bureaucratically—or Elias weaponizes her visions without consent. Internally she fights oath-bound loyalty versus shouting truths that summon psychiatric cages and polite removals. Her dilemma pairs leaking chronometrics publicly versus burying proof to shield Elias's instruments—and neighbors—because retaliation rewards forgetting first. With Elias, empirical hunger amplifies intimacy and suspicion whenever equations imply she's merely glitch.
