Whispers of Existence

Previously

…A brief silence stretched between them, heavy with unspoken implications. Then, Alistair’s voice, now tinged with a raw vulnerability, spoke. “Tell me.” Clara recounted her findings, the lack of forced entry, the abandoned belongings, the unsettling sense of an abrupt, inexplicable vanishing. She mentioned Silas Croft, and the date of his own disappearance, which Alistair had noted in his journal. “Silas,” Alistair breathed, the name a sigh of recognition. “He was trying to understand, just as I am. But he went too far.” “You mentioned a pattern, Dr. Finch,” Clara pressed. “Are you saying the Millers… they weren’t the first? Or the last?” “They are not,” Alistair confirmed