Kaleb Sutter

April 17, 2025

By Grace Steinmetz

🛑 YOU ARE NOT THE MURDERER.

But you were there when the door opened.
You just… don’t remember how.


Additional Backstory:

You’ve been dreaming in dirt lately.
Tunnels that curve in on themselves.
And a phrase written in chalk on your glove every morning — even when you scrub it clean:

“It wasn’t locked. It was waiting.”

You stopped telling people.
Because the knocking got louder.


New Motivation:

Follow the mine’s pull. Keep people away from the “wrong” echoes. And if you’re chosen again — don’t fight it this time.


Clue You Possess:

  • A drawing of a vault symbol with three Xs, hidden in your back pocket

  • A glove that always seems to have chalk on it — even when you haven’t used any

  • A half-written sentence from Red’s safety report:

    “Kaleb may be reckless, but he’s the only one who *knows where to lis—”
    (Sentence ends mid-word)

You carry that page everywhere.
Folded three times.
Exactly like in your dream.