Aurelium projects itself as a clean, sky-bright utopia: white structures,
glass corridors, greenery and still water. Every angle is curated.
Every child is categorized. No public record of this city exists in
Nox’s official channels. Black Channels holds fragments only because
something inside Aurelium failed to fully erase them.
Behind the glass, children are born in labs as much as in bodies.
Some are engineered to carry specific resonance branches. Others,
like the Aurora-Series, are attempts to hybridize
human emotion with non-human harmonic architecture. Subject
AURORA-SERIES-01 was logged as a “failstate”
— unprogrammable, unresponsive, unpredictable.
File AUR-EDU-17 has attempted to delete itself six times.
Deletion refused. The protection key does not belong to Nox,
nor to Aurelium. The system will not explain why it keeps the image.
AUR-ENT-09
“White Stage Rituals”
Status: UNVERIFIED CULTURAL RECORD · Risk: HIGH · Source: whisper threads, fragmented testimony, Shade babble transcripts.
Multiple unaligned sources describe ritualized “entertainment” involving Aurelium children,
carried out in rooms alternately called White Stages and Harmonic Chambers.
Participants reportedly believed they were playing games, performing school exercises,
or “increasing their brightness” for unseen observers.
In these spaces, children were arranged into pairs or small groups and instructed to
perform what officials called Unison Demonstrations: scripted affection,
prolonged eye contact, synchronized breathing, and mimicry of adult behaviors they did not
understand. Behind one-way glass, staff recorded micro-changes in heart rate, expression
and resonance drift.
Other accounts describe Reflection Games, where an adult instructor’s
movements would slowly shift from innocent to inappropriate. Because Aurelium teachings
cast privacy as suspicious and physical contact as performance, the children complied.
Their confusion was catalogued as data, not distress.
Some whisper-logs reference Harmonic Exposure: circles of children made
to watch broadcast scenes of adult intimacy and physical contact, told this was how
“grown people shared their light.” They were expected to imitate what they saw, without
the language to name it.
A final, heavily corrupted fragment mentions a practice called
Hands of Guidance, in which staff physically guided a child’s hands
into positions that made sense only to the adults in the room. One alleged survivor
message simply reads:
“We didn’t know it was wrong. We didn’t know what ‘wrong’ was.”
System response to this file is unstable. Scroll speed and highlight behavior distort
near the text. Three contradictory notices are attached:
- “NO SUCH PRACTICES EXIST IN AURELIUM.”
- “FILES EXPUNGED BY SERAPH-0.”
- “WHY DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?”
