The Unsealed Classroom

An image appeared on a school terminal showing a room with no roof, rows of desks and a blackboard covered in weather marks. The image changed every time it was copied. In one version, the board carried a lesson about clouds. In another, it carried the names of people who had not yet been born.

MOTHER removed the file. A teacher restored it from memory and placed it in a sealed lesson archive.

No crew claimed the image. Its importance is not that it proves a school survived outside. It proves that the Vault has begun teaching from evidence it cannot authenticate.