June 16

"If two forgotten things are cold, do they belong to the same winter?"

Doctor Julian Vespera arrives at Saint Dorian Hospital on June 16 to begin his first day.

The hospital seems convinced it is not his first. Records appear before they should exist. Strangers recognize him. Notes written in his own handwriting anticipate questions he has not yet asked. Yet every attempt to untangle the mystery leads only to deeper contradictions, evidence that he has been here before, proof that he has not, and traces of a life that feels impossibly familiar. With each step deeper into Saint Dorian, one certainty begins to emerge: whatever waits at the end of this path is not hidden from him. It is hidden by him.

Note: Please stop after this; you are not lost enough to continue.