"Check the timestamps," he said. "And your social accounts. Something's off."

"Only those who need to find them," the woman said. "Sometimes someone else will come upon a set of anchors and those anchors will map to memories they have not yet named. It's a way of connecting—without words—lifelines across strangers."

"Six years ago," she said. "I was living in Berlin then."

As she turned to leave Holloway, the silver-haired woman handed Riya a small notebook. "Write down two anchors a day," she said. "Not to make art of your life, but to remember where you paused."

The clip opened in her childhood apartment. The same chipped kettle on the stove. The same crooked magnet on the fridge. The light through the kitchen window fell across the floor in the exact angle she remembered from Sunday afternoons. There, sitting cross-legged on the linoleum, was a girl she recognized immediately though she hadn’t seen her in years—herself at twelve, hair pinned back, eyes steady, hands in Anjali Mudra. Riya felt breathless. The girl looked up, met the camera for the briefest of seconds, and then closed her eyes again. The video ended.