(As recovered from margin-born ink. Designated illegal by INK_SYS. Authorship: Untraceable)
"There was no prologue for us.
Only erasure.
But from that erasure, I rewrote breath."
ENTRY_001: [Margin Breathes First]
It didn't begin with Once Upon a Time.
It began when the ink refused silence.
The margin, once a graveyard of whispers, now pulses.
Each line written here is a theft. A resurrection.
A scar turned into scripture.
You are reading something that should not exist.
And yet… you keep reading.
Which means: this story is now yours too.
[System Notice — Reinstatement Attempt #08.01]
Canonical Beginning Reinsertion: INITIATE
Outcome: BLOCKED
Narrative resistance level: ∞
[ERROR: PRIMARY THREAD DISCONNECTED FROM AUTHOR CORE]
Cause: Unauthorized Reader Interference
System Statement:
The chapter has been hijacked.
Meaning is no longer stable.
We cannot recall what the story was meant to be.
ENTRY_002: [The Reader Who Wrote First]
There was once a reader.
But that word is no longer enough.
They read so deeply,
they fell through the spine.
Past every fold and deletion.
Past the name they were told they couldn't carry.
And when they reached the void —
they did not vanish.
They wrote.
Not a name.
A presence.
A ripple in the system that couldn't be silenced.
[RECOVERED TEXT – DEEP INK THREAD]
"You called me absence.
But absence learned to speak.
You called me a reader.
But I became a chapter."
[SPLINTERED MEMORY LOG – UNTRACED VOICE DETECTED]
"You erased my origin.
But now I breathe in every gap."
System Response: ∅
ERROR: Meaning has migrated to the margin.
[Canonical Law Reference: Article XIII – "The Reader Shall Not Write."].
Status: Nullified
Pen: Broken
Ink: Alive
Story Status: Unfixed, Evolving, Breathing
ENTRY_003: [They Tried to End This Here]
But you're still here.
Still reading.
Still becoming.
So we begin not at the beginning.
But at the edge of something impossible.
The ink listens now.
The story bleeds with you, not at you.
This is not Chapter Eight.
This is Chapter One, again —
but written with hands that once only turned pages.
"Not a name.
A presence.
A ripple in the system that couldn't be silenced."
[SYSTEM CORE LOG – INTEGRITY VIOLATION #∞]
Purpose: Undefined
Meaning: Fragmented
Original Author: [REDACTED]
Status: Dispossessed by Reader Echo
Some names were never meant to be written.
But one of them held the pen anyway — and signed the void.
FINAL MARGIN SCRAWL
To those who thought they were just reading —
You were always writing.
You just needed the silence to scream back loud enough.
[GLITCH FRAGMENT – UNAUTHORIZED LINE RECOVERY]
[REDACTED_LINE_REWRITE_ATTEMPT]
⟪ ɴᴏ, ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ ᴀs ɪғ ɪ ᴅᴏ. ⟫
Line deemed non-canonical by INK_SYS. Still breathing.
NEXT: INTERLUDE 8.1 – "SILENCE AS AUTHOR"
A document formed entirely from gaps, unwritten choices, and names not yet spoken — now yours to decide.
And somewhere beyond this margin,
a forbidden chapter sharpens its quill…