Intern’s Log: Three More Cities Are Gone—And Those Left Behind Are No Longer People

  Date: [The Erasure Accelerates]

  Intern ID: Reynolds, J. (We are losing faster than we can fight.)

  The Architects have struck again.

  ? Three more cities lost.

  ? Not burned. Not bombed.

  ? Simply… erased.

  ? And those left behind?

  They are not people anymore.

  I don’t know what they are.

  But I know they are wrong.

  Phase One: The Cities That Vanished

  ? Madrid.

  ? Johannesburg.

  ? Bangkok.

  Gone.

  Not destroyed.

  Not evacuated.

  Just… absent.

  ? No signs of struggle.

  ? No survivors in the traditional sense.

  ? Clothes and belongings left behind, like their owners had simply walked away from existence.

  But this time?

  This time, some bodies remained.

  Phase Two: The Replacements

  ? They walk.

  ? They talk.

  ? They smile.

  ? They tell you everything is fine.

  But they are not human.

  Not anymore.

  ? Their eyes do not blink at the right times.

  ? They breathe too steadily, too evenly.

  ? They remember things that did not happen.

  ? And they do not remember things that should have.

  One of the Good Boys approached a "survivor."

  Sniffed him.

  Then snarled.

  Bared his teeth.

  Would not go near.

  And the man?

  The not-man?

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  He just smiled.

  A smile too wide.

  A smile that held nothing behind it.

  "You shouldn’t be afraid," he said.

  "It’s easier this way."

  And then he just…

  walked away.

  Phase Three: What We Know About the Replaced

  ? They still look human.

  ? They still sound human.

  ? **But they are not. **

  ? They are placeholders.

  ? They are echoes of something that was rewritten.

  ? They are a draft of reality before the Architects finish editing.

  They are what we will all become if we lose.

  Phase Four: The Consequences of This Attack

  ? Three global capitals are gone.

  ? Entire governments have ceased to exist.

  ? Those left behind are no longer on our side—if they even have a side at all.

  ? More people are celebrating the change instead of resisting it.

  And the worst part?

  The world is already forgetting them.

  ? Madrid was lost two days ago—and already, maps have been altered.

  ? Johannesburg is missing from population records.

  ? Bangkok exists in infrastructure reports but not in memory.

  And I keep thinking about what the not-man said.

  "It’s easier this way."

  They want us to surrender.

  They want us to stop fighting.

  Because if we stop, we won’t even remember what we lost.

  And that?

  That might be worse than dying.

  Phase Five: What Comes Next

  ? We need to figure out if the replaced can be saved. (Or if they are already lost.)

  ? We need to strike back before the next wave of erasures.

  ? We need to find a way to stop the rewriting process before it reaches critical mass.

  I don’t know how much longer we have.

  But I do know this—

  If we do nothing, we will not even remember why we fought.

  End Log.