Threshold Witness

The witness crossed a narrow exterior route, saw open ground beneath a changing sky and returned before the route's timer expired. They brought back no sample, image or instrument reading.

At intake, MOTHER asked what was outside. The witness answered: enough to make every answer inside incomplete.

They refused a second expedition and requested that their name remain absent from the public copy. The statement is kept at the end of the compilation not because it closes the surface question, but because it refuses to turn a first sight into a final claim.