Before Waking Up Rika Nishimura -

Subject Rika Nishimura is in a psychologically fragile pre-awakening state. The content of her looped dream (loss, a dropped object, a fall) suggests unresolved grief. , the team must accept that waking her is an intervention into an ongoing internal process. Respect the loop. Let her find the handkerchief. Then call her name.

She lay still for a moment, listening. No residue of the dream. No gray. Just the hum of the city beginning to stir. before waking up rika nishimura