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In the monsoon-choked ruins of 2091 Bangalore—now Indra-17—memory is the last currency, and forgetting is punishable by law.

Anaya Kane is a low-caste memory archivist working for the Office of Public Memory, a government body tasked with extracting, digitising, and sanitising the minds of the dying. Her job is bureaucratic, thankless, and increasingly disturbing—especially as her assigned memories begin bleeding into her waking life. Faces she’s never seen know her name. Murmurs follow her home. And somewhere in the static between archived minds, something ancient is calling: Naale Baa—come tomorrow.

When a corrupted memory file shows a woman in a yellow sari whispering secrets from the future, Anaya begins to question everything—the stability of her mind, the integrity of her memories, and whether she’s truly human at all. Worse, others in the archive have started to vanish. One by one.

As urban legends of the churel and Naale Baa resurface, recast through corrupted implants and neural ghosts, Anaya is caught in a slow unraveling of identity, truth, and time. The memory government wants obedience. The city wants silence. But something old, hungry, and half-remembered wants her.

To survive, Anaya must confront a haunting reality: she is no longer the archivist of memory—she may be its final archive.

Cerebral Lagoon

Confidential Personnel Evaluation Report Department: Office of Public Memory, Indra-17 Sector Archive Division

Employee ID: KANE-A305-D

Full Name: Anaya Kane

Role: Mid-Level Memory Archivist

Clearance Level: Beta-Tier Access – Section 5B

Caste Index: Scheduled Caste (Class-92-Beta)

Psychological Assessment

Subject displays high tolerance for long-duration memory handling and trauma ingestion protocols. Her introspective and non-confrontational temperament has proven useful in reducing contamination risk during volatile memory extraction. Evaluated as emotionally resilient, though prone to signs of controlled dissociation. Noted to exhibit moderate recall latency under stress, with possible anomalous episodic memory bleed.

Indicators: Minimal outburst history & Elevated pattern recognition

Suspected instances of involuntary mnemonic overlap (internal audit flagged 3 sessions, ref: 7A99-K, 6C21-F, 5Z17-M)

Recommendation: Continue psychological observation. Subject remains a high-functioning asset, with potential exposure risks to unclassified memory phenomena.

Operational Performance

Tenure: 8 years (3 years – intake operator; 5 years – archivist grade II)

Average Memory Processing Time: 17.4 minutes (sector median: 23.6 minutes)

Error Flags: Minimal. One critical incident redacted from records; assigned to Administrative Oversight.

Notable Attributes: High tagging precision across trauma-class memories, Exceptional metadata calibration on pre-Collapse memory sets, Unusual retention of client-side details beyond expected protocol window.

Supervisor Comments: "Consistent. Unshaken. Excessive pattern-seeking behaviour noted—may lead to procedural drift."

Background Verification

Place of Origin: Block Singh-12, Lower Lakes Ward

Family: Single mother (deceased); father unlisted

Education: No formal higher education. Training received through OPM internal VR modules

Civil Compliance Score: 8.9/10

Deviance Report: None recorded officially. Informal reports of isolationist behaviour not actioned.

Physical and Biometric Notes

Implants: Standard caste barcode (left wrist), OPM neuro-port (right clavicle)

Medical: Cleared in last quarterly scan. No psycho-somatic anomalies reported.

Observed Behavioural Pattern: Avoids unnecessary social interaction, Subscribes to daily ritual behaviour (shrine tending, silent mantra practice), Regular physical tics noted under memory overexposure (e.g., tactile grounding, blink rate spike)

Personal Philosophy Extract (unauthorised but observed)

"Memory is sediment, not scripture."

"Ghosts are data that never got archived properly."

"I light the lamp for no gods. Just for the dead."

Risk Flag Summary

Subject shows elevated sensitivity to recursive memory structures

Dream activity logged via neural sync exceeds normal cognitive thresholds

Correlation with folklore imprinting (ref: Yellow-sari figure / Naale Baa pattern) is under review

Final Assessment: Asset remains mission-critical and under-threshold for active disruption. Recommend controlled promotion or lateral reassignment to avoid exposure to deeper neural archive sectors. Monitor for further bleed-through events.

Filed by: Compliance Auditor – Sector Theta

Verified by: Division Command – Indra-17

Confidentiality Level: Class B (Internal Eyes Only)

Anaya Kane (KANE-A305-D)