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Root & Ember staff report ejecting a wild fae (again) for attempted glitter theft. The fae claims innocence. The floor sparkles anyway.

In early twentieth-century Korea, a young woman died before she could be married.

After her death, the village did not remember her only as a daughter, a neighbor, or a person with a name.

She became something unfinished.

A category.

A warning.

A ritual problem.

TX-001 follows the figure known in Korean folklore as the Son-gaksi — the maiden ghost, the bride who never crossed into the life that had been prepared for her.

This entry belongs to ORIGIN PROTOCOL — THE UNCROSSED, a fictional folklore archive about people who were not allowed to cross: into marriage, into memory, into mourning, or into a complete human story.

This is not a monster story.

It is a story about what happens when a life is interrupted, and a community explains the interruption by turning a person into folklore.

Calendar malfunction detected. It is now both Thursday and Not Thursday. Proceed accordingly.

Rat-Approved:

Any further attempts at unauthorized glitter magic will result in a temporary ban from all archive corridors and access to decorative bread.