Chapter 9: Trace Memory

Transcript Excerpt - Patient 19-A (recorded 04/05/2024)
> INTERVIEWER: You said it started as a dream.
> PATIENT: It was memory. Just not mine.
Describes a trench-like environment--but inverted. As if inside-out. Describes sensation of moving
through liquid thought. Mentions a structure "shaped like a vertebrae, humming in rhythm with my
heartbeat."
Later segments of the tape contain frequency bleed. Audio splits, whispering and echoing at once.
> PATIENT: I think they're not coming for us. I think they're coming *as* us.