The Memory Thief of Tunguska

Dr. Sergei Volkov

Anna

Nikolai

Captain Dmitri Razin

Nikolai and Anna's Yurt

A single-room felt yurt where Nikolai and Anna have lived for twenty years, filled with the physical evidence of memories Anna is losing. Two small wooden crosses hang above the bed where their children once slept. Anna's woven prayer shawl lies untouched where she dropped it the morning the entity came. Every object tells a story she can no longer remember feeling.

The Bog

A peat bog where millions of trees were flattened by the Tunguska event, now filled with stagnant water that reflects nothing. The alien craft sits embedded like a black wound in the earth, and the bog has begun growing around it—strange luminous fungi, moss that pulses with faint light, insect calls that sound like human whispers.

The Expedition Camp

A military encampment of canvas tents and scientific equipment pitched on what was once pristine taiga, lit by coal lanterns and powered by generator hum. The tents create sharp geometric shapes against organic forest, and within them, the tools of Empire and Science—specimen jars, field notebooks, weapons rack—await deployment on something that defies both categories.