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In a dusty corner of the old university library, linguistics graduate student Mira found a strange USB drive tucked inside a 19th-century grammar book. The label read:
Mira learned that "Dezrădăcinare" (Romanian for "uprooting" or "deracination") was a forbidden ritual used to erase a person from collective memory. "Sasa Zare" appeared to be the name of a village that had vanished from every map after the ritual was performed a century ago.
No one was there. But her reflection in the window had changed — her face was beginning to blur, too.