Mortality Walten Files Novels & Stories

The screen po‌pulated. F‍iles. Doze‌ns of them. TH‍ORNE: LIQUIDATION MATRIX. CLAUDIA⁠ WINTHROP: ORIGIN ANN⁠IHILATION. J⁠AMES WINTHROP‍: LEG⁠AL TERMINUS. And th‍e‌ master file: OPERATION TAKE OVER, EXECUTION PHASE. Exec‍ution Pha⁠se. The words were cold bloo‍d down my spine.

“Yeah, some of them were supernatural, and others were humans who we believe were killed by the creatures. The autopsies we received from the human deaths all showed DNA proving that they were killed by one of the creatures. However, each creature we’ve found was stabbed, which leads me to believe you did it.” Relief courses through me at his words. It feels good to get confirmation that I wasn’t the one killing those people. “Is there anything else in the file?” Rowan scrolls again and clicks on several more icons. Other files with similar code numbers show, but there’s very little information. We read those files but do not find anything new. Rowan copies the files and stores them in the d

I was here for the investigation, nothing else. We got back to the estate, I changed and sat at my desk, and opened the Lena Maren records again. The redacted name. The thirty-day dissolution. The exact address matched with Vela Holdings. I needed that name. I started a new search, working backward from the dissolution date, pulling every connected document. An hour later I found one file that hadn’t been fully wiped out. A small formatting error had left part of the name behind. Fourteen letters, I stared at them, then pushed back from the desk.

The grey room was not quiet anymore; it was filled with the presence of the missing file and the residual anger from Anton's shattered calm. The single string of text—FILE E.VOSS – CONFIDENTIAL.DAT HAS BEEN PURGED—thrilled on the screen emptiness, an electronic tombstone.

A code. Helena frowned. “That’s odd.” “What?” “This clearance ID shouldn’t exist anymore.” She pulled up archived corporate authority registries, cross-referencing automatically. The system searched. Matched. Then displayed the result. Damian felt something cold move through his chest. The authorization belonged to: EXECUTIVE CLEARANCE — ALAN ROTHWELL Status: Inactive — Deceased (6 Years Prior) Silence filled the lab. Helena turned slowly toward him. “Your system shows this executive died before the fire.”

Reluctantly, she backed off, seething. I knelt at the safe, grabbing a handful of aged, yellowing files. They were mostly filled with numbers, signatures, offshore accounts and weapons deals. Basically everything Fernando never wanted to exist in the world of law and order. And then I saw it. A file near the back, the corner marked with faded red ink. I pulled it out, and the name on the first page hit me like a hammer to the chest. Subject: Elise V. Carter – Deceased. My heart stopped.

Pulling files. Every file was a complete family record. Birth certificates, death certificates, financials, criminal records. Everything. Celeste found the Belmont file. Thick as hell. She flipped through—her mother's name was there. So was hers. Then she saw a handwritten note. "The subject shows resistance to conditioning. Recommend termination." Dated three days before her mother died. Her stomach twisted. "They murdered her because she wouldn't fall in line." More notes. More families marked for termination. "They've been doing this for years. Killing anyone who doesn't obey."

“I need to see that folder.” Ethan reached out instinctively, his palm on my arm. “You’ve seen enough. This could put a target on your back.” I shrugged him off. “I already have a target. I need to know what she died for.” Marcus printed out the contents of Folder 8C. Twenty-seven names. Some marked with red slashes. “Those are the ones who didn’t make it,” he said softly. I stared at the paper. Most names were children. The youngest was six.

, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the final seconds before the blackout, Maverick glimpsed a second corrupted file; marked with Elena’s birth-date. Unnamed. Unindexed. And tagged: "Subject 318B"