Start: Elena enters a records office with three facts. A record changed, Mina saw it, and the office is already watching. The player can move immediately under a small case slip, find proof at the left ledger, protect Mina's name, and choose the official finding.
Controls: Arrow keys or WASD move Elena. E, Enter, or Space uses the nearby object. Number keys choose the action: 1 Inspect, 2 Present, 3 Redact, 4 Attach, and 5 File. H opens case notes. R reopens the case after an ending.
Objective: inspect the changed ledger, show proof to Mina, cover Mina's name, gather sealed-room evidence, mark the way back with a pale thread, seal the evidence folder, and choose what the desk files.
Core risk: watched floor zones and loud or slow optional evidence raise office attention. High attention can make Mina stop helping, close optional evidence, or lock a doorway. File-rail scans and reach lines show attention in the playfield before the side panel confirms it. Move out of watched zones, cover protected information, and choose which risks are worth taking.
Body feedback: Elena uses facing, stride, idle breathing, and interaction reach in the current drawing approach. Mina's posture, halo, and shoulder line shift between willing, watched, withdrawn, and protected states so her danger is visible in the room.
Fieldwork loop: the journal frames the trip, discovery notes remember proof, optional clues strengthen the case while drawing attention, and the lower room asks whether Elena ties a pale thread back to the stair rail or searches deeper for a riskier clue. Gold traces mark places Elena has already disturbed.
Audio: after the player opens the case, a quiet background bed supports the annex mood while short local cues mark proof, pressure, redaction, packet sealing, filing review, endings, and replay.
Endings: protect Mina with sealed proof, file a mixed truth before full safety, or file fast and unsafe. All endings return to the annex filing desk and require a case review before commitment. The review explains what the desk remembers about Mina, proof, the way back, optional clues, office attention, and the witness consequence of the filing.