In the hallowed halls of the Museum of Half-Remembered Things, where display cases hummed with stolen memories, Dr. Lorne Vess presided over three sacred relics:
It began with ordinary artifacts:
Then the acquisitions grew... peculiar.
February 14th: A police evidence box containing "the silence between the gunshot and the scream" (labeled Thorn, M. - Exhibit 137)
March 3rd: A doctor's bag holding "the exact weight of a guilty conscience" (Thorn, M. - Exhibit 138)
April 1st: An empty frame that displayed "whatever you've forgotten you promised to forget"
Last Tuesday, Dr. Vess arrived to find Gallery 13 expanded overnight—three new wings branching into spaces the blueprints swore were solid stone. The air smelled of funeral lilies and freshly turned earth. At the center stood a new placard:
"THORN, M. - FINAL EXHIBIT"
The display case contained:
The security footage shows Vess entering Gallery 13 at 3:33 AM. The motion sensors registered two figures leaving.
The museum opens at dawn.
Final Plaque:
This concludes our exhibition.
Please check your coat pockets before leaving.
The items you "accidentally" stole?
They were never yours to take.
