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The Name Buried in Ash
Image prompt:

Do not depict: Child Abuse, Suicide, Explicit sexual content or nudity, Extreme graphic violence or gore, Deeply nihilistic or hopeless themes, Drug/alcohol use. Generate an illustration for a choose-your-own-adventure story. Style: Digital illustration, vivid colours, suitable for a web story. Do not include any text or lettering in the image. A dim archive room filled with scorched and water-warped ledgers, a single oil lamp casting amber light over a yellowed handwritten note lying open on a dusty table. in Photo-realistic style, Dramatic lighting / Chiaroscuro

The Name Buried in Ash


The company archive smells of char and rot, its shelves bowed under water-damaged ledgers no one has touched in years. You find the Station 7 inquiry folder wedged behind a collapsed binder — official pages detailing a faulty lantern, signed and sealed with bureaucratic finality.

But tucked inside the back cover, folded twice, is a single handwritten note. Three lines. A name: Victor Hayle. Your superior. The man who approved your posting to Millhaven.


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