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 +=====   Prologue — Incident Log: Missing Children   =====
 +
 +The first report is clean.
 +
 +Too clean.
 +
 +Five children.\\
 +Five separate dates.\\
 +Same location.
 +
 +Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.
 +
 +No bodies.\\
 +No signs of struggle.\\
 +No forced entry.\\
 +No exit.
 +
 +The initial police summary is a model of procedural calm:
 +
 +<blockquote>
 +
 +//“Likely abduction cases. Investigation ongoing.”//
 +
 + </blockquote>
 +It is not ongoing.
 +
 +It stopped eight years ago.
 +
 +----
 +
 +The second layer is messier.
 +
 +Witness statements. Fragmented. Contradictory.
 +
 +A mother:
 +
 +<blockquote>
 +
 +“He said he was going to meet the bear.”
 +
 +</blockquote>
 +
 +An employee:
 +
 +<blockquote>
 +
 +“We checked every room. Every room.”
 +
 +</blockquote>
 +
 +A child, recorded on a handheld device, voice thin with static:
 +
 +<blockquote>
 +
 +“They don’t go home. They stay after the show.”
 +
 +</blockquote>
 +
 +----
 +
 +Camera logs are incomplete.
 +
 +Not corrupted — incomplete.
 +
 +Segments exist where continuity should be.
 +
 +Children entering the hallway behind the stage.
 +
 +No footage of them leaving.
 +
 +Not cut.\\
 +Not erased.
 +
 +Just… not there.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Foundation interest is triggered when cross-referencing a dormant surveillance node.
 +
 +The building is flagged as inactive.
 +
 +Utilities disconnected.\\
 +Ownership dissolved.\\
 +Condemned.
 +
 +Yet the node reports intermittent visual data.
 +
 +Timestamped.
 +
 +Recent.
 +
 +----
 +
 +The first retrieved frame shows the main dining area.
 +
 +Tables overturned. Dust layered thick across every surface.
 +
 +Stage curtains drawn.
 +
 +Three figures visible in silhouette behind the fabric.
 +
 +----
 +
 +The second frame is identical.
 +
 +Except the curtains are open.
 +
 +----
 +
 +The third frame is identical.
 +
 +Except one of the figures is closer.
 +
 +----
 +
 +No motion is recorded between frames.
 +
 +No transitional data exists.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Final annotation, appended by an automated system that should not be running:
 +
 +<blockquote>
 +
 +//“Stage integrity maintained.”//
 +
 + </blockquote>
 +----
 +
 +The building has been closed for eight years.
 +
 +----
 +
 +The feed is still live.
 +
 +----
 +
 +=====   Chapter 1 — Closed, But Not Empty   =====
 +
 +The parking lot is cracked asphalt and weeds.
 +
 +No signage remains intact. The name is still barely readable above the entrance, sun-bleached into a ghost of itself.
 +
 +Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.
 +
 +Ace stops three meters from the door.
 +
 +She doesn’t reach for her blades. Not yet.
 +
 +Her head tilts slightly, violet catching something that isn’t visible.
 +
 +“Not empty.”
 +
 +Mai doesn’t respond immediately. She’s already mapping.
 +
 +Entrances. Sightlines. Structural stress points. The building should be inert — a dead shell with predictable geometry.
 +
 +It isn’t.
 +
 +“Layout doesn’t match the exterior footprint,” she says finally. “We’re missing internal volume.”
 +
 +Shammy stands behind them, one hand resting lightly against the metal doorframe.
 +
 +The air shifts.
 +
 +Not a breeze. Not temperature.
 +
 +Pressure.
 +
 +Like a room that’s been holding its breath too long.
 +
 +“This place is waiting,” she says quietly.
 +
 +----
 +
 +The door opens without resistance.
 +
 +No lock.
 +
 +No alarm.
 +
 +No sound beyond the soft grind of metal against warped hinges.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Inside, the silence is wrong.
 +
 +Dust should absorb sound. Dead spaces should feel flat, predictable.
 +
 +This space isn’t flat.
 +
 +It has depth.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Tables sit where they were left, chairs tipped over mid-motion as if something interrupted the room and never let it finish collapsing.
 +
 +Party banners hang in strips, colors drained but not entirely gone.
 +
 +A balloon drifts near the ceiling.
 +
 +Not rising. Not falling.
 +
 +Suspended.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Mai steps forward first.
 +
 +She counts unconsciously. Distances between objects. Angles. Relationships.
 +
 +The numbers don’t hold.
 +
 +“This room is too long,” she says. “By at least—”
 +
 +She stops.
 +
 +Recalculates.
 +
 +Gets a different answer.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Ace moves past her.
 +
 +Direct.
 +
 +Unhesitating.
 +
 +The stage draws her.
 +
 +It always does — anything that looks like a focal point, a place where things converge.
 +
 +Curtains hang half-open.
 +
 +Behind them:
 +
 +Freddy.
 +
 +Bonnie.
 +
 +Chica.
 +
 +Still. Lifeless. Exactly as expected.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Ace watches.
 +
 +Not for long.
 +
 +Just enough to confirm.
 +
 +“No movement.”
 +
 +----
 +
 +A light flickers overhead.
 +
 +Once.
 +
 +Then steadies.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Mai turns toward it immediately.
 +
 +“There’s no power grid,” she says.
 +
 +Shammy doesn’t look up.
 +
 +Her attention is elsewhere.
 +
 +Every surface.
 +
 +Every corner.
 +
 +Every gap between things.
 +
 +The air tightens slightly, like static building before a storm.
 +
 +“It doesn’t need power,” she says.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Ace steps onto the stage.
 +
 +Wood creaks under her weight — a normal sound, finally something that behaves the way it should.
 +
 +She stands directly in front of Freddy.
 +
 +Close enough to see the fine cracks in the plastic shell.
 +
 +The empty black of the eyes.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Nothing happens.
 +
 +----
 +
 +She turns away.
 +
 +Satisfied.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Behind her—
 +
 +something shifts.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Not a sound.
 +
 +Not movement.
 +
 +Just—
 +
 +wrongness.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Mai’s voice cuts through it, sharp.
 +
 +“Ace.”
 +
 +----
 +
 +Ace turns back.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Freddy is still there.
 +
 +Same position.
 +
 +Same posture.
 +
 +Same distance.
 +
 +----
 +
 +But something doesn’t line up.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Mai steps closer, eyes narrowing.
 +
 +“I need you to describe what you saw,” she says.
 +
 +Ace frowns slightly. Not confusion — irritation at the question.
 +
 +“Static. Inactive. Forward-facing.”
 +
 +Mai nods once.
 +
 +Then steps to the side.
 +
 +Changes angle.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Her breath catches.
 +
 +Not fear.
 +
 +Recognition.
 +
 +----
 +
 +“That’s not what I’m seeing now.”
 +
 +----
 +
 +Shammy exhales slowly.
 +
 +The air responds.
 +
 +A faint ripple, almost imperceptible.
 +
 +----
 +
 +“They didn’t move,” she says.
 +
 +----
 +
 +A pause.
 +
 +----
 +
 +“They changed because we thought we understood them.”
 +
 +----
 +
 +The light flickers again.
 +
 +----
 +
 +Somewhere deeper in the building—
 +
 +a door closes.
 +
 +----
 +
 +None of them touched it.
 +