Black Forest Protocol

Germany, 1936. Deep within the Black Forest, something falls from the sky.

SS officer Ernst Falk is stationed on a quiet rural post when the forest itself seems to recoil, where animals vanish, the air vibrates, and the night splits open with a light no human technology should be able to produce. By dawn, a seamless metallic object lies embedded in the earth, warping the trees around it and defying every known law of physics.

It is not wreckage.

It is not dead.

And it is not alone.

Hidden beneat...