PART ONE: ECHOES BEFORE DAWN

When the Kincaid siblings return to their father's Nebraska farm to prepare it for sale, they're not just saying goodbye to land-they're unpacking a vault of memory.

Boxes filled with photos, copper coils, and forgotten rituals stir echoes of a failed experiment: the Crenshaw Project. It was supposed to restore fragments of a lost reality, one collapsed by time and quantum drift. But when Toby entered the memory chamber, the simulation fell apart-flooded with scenes too real, too wrong, too powerful to survive.

Now, as old grief resurfaces and the wind remembers more than it should, June proposes a second chance. One last try to rebuild what slipped through their fingers.

This is a story about holding on when truth fractures-about family, memory, and the dream of stitching back a world that still hums beneath the skin.