Chapter 1: The Door Opens

By midnight, the plan has already failed in the most useful possible direction.

notes in locker 314 predicting one student's disaster every Friday

The evidence survives, but reaching it requires a choice that exposes the group to a new enemy.

June Carter keeps the larger goal in view: break the prediction cycle before June's name appears. The immediate problem is smaller, sharper, and impossible to postpone.

They disagree without leaving. For both of them, that becomes a more intimate choice than agreement.

June Carter accepts that the impossible event is real and cannot be ignored.

The recurring signs of lockers, charcoal sketches, train echoes return with a different meaning, linking this choice to what came before.

Before the first night ends, the danger speaks June Carter's name.