**The Pulse News 365** — Veridion City, May 7, 2026
The same group of strangers keeps appearing on the Mid-Rise Skyline Loop trains — identical clothes, synchronized movements, faces that don’t register in any database.
One rider locked eyes with their own double across the aisle. The figure dissolved into static when the train entered a tunnel.
Neural scanners are being ramped up. Timeline crowding is the leading theory on the streets.