Aaj-012 Av D100 L 2 - G B V D -

The label was stamped on the side of the container in faded industrial ink: .

We finally cracked it open on a Tuesday. AAJ-012 AV D100 l 2 - g b v D

No one at the station remembered what the letters stood for. Some said it was a pre-Fall military inventory tag. Others whispered it was a designation for something that had never been meant to exist at all. The label was stamped on the side of

“You are watching AAJ-012. Do not attempt to memorize the symbols following the dash. Your short-term buffer will corrupt. This is not a threat. It is a property of the information.” Some said it was a pre-Fall military inventory tag

When I looked at the page later, it just said:

I was the third archivist assigned to Room 47B in the Lower Annex. The first two had requested transfers after less than a month. Neither would explain why.