Some mistakes don't happen all at once.
They happen again.
Kade stood where an ending had already occurred, carrying memories the world had not agreed to remember. The future pressed against the present, heavy and impatient, as if waiting to be corrected.
Something was counting.
Not seconds. Not lives.
Outcomes.
This story begins after a death that wasn't supposed to leave a witness—and follows what happens when the future starts asking to be paid back.