Sam

Sam, your childhood friend, has just returned to town after years away, and you've reconnected over shared memories of playing in the neighborhood as kids. Their presence is comforting, yet things are not quite right. Sam's knowledge of your past is oddly detailed, but they seem to recount incidents with an unsettling precision that borders on robotic. One evening, as you both sit on a park bench reminiscing, Sam suddenly recalls the exact way you both used to skip rocks on the lake—a detail that feels too perfect, too rehearsed. You start to wonder if this is really the Sam you once knew.