The wallpaper’s audio crackled. Then a new voice—low, layered, like three people whispering different things at once:

The first thing Kris noticed was that the fountain in their living room wallpaper was no longer frozen.

It had been a still image for three years—a pixel-perfect capture of Castle Town’s main square, with Ralsei waving from the bakery door and Lancer stacking spoons on the bench. Kris had downloaded it from a forum after their first Deltarune playthrough. It was comforting. Static.