Introduction: Dr. Naya Vale sees what no one else sees.Shadows that lag. Smiles that don't quite stick. Glitches in the real. Lies wrapped in skin.She's a professor of Anomalous Systems Engineering鈥攐bsessed with patterns, bad with deadlines, and brilliant in ways that make people deeply uncomfortable. ADHD. HPI. Technically gifted, emotionally scrambled.Then one morning, in the middle of a lecture, a student鈥檚 shadow moves wrong.And a message appears in her faculty mailbox.you see us dont youNow the walls are bending. The masks are cracking.And whatever鈥檚 been hiding in plain sight is finally looking back....