**[CLASSIFIED - EYES ONLY]**

[CLASSIFIED - EYES ONLY]

Subject: VOGUE VIPER UPDATE

Source: Internal HR & Legal Affairs

An audacious memo, marked “Extremely Urgent,” has surfaced, detailing a peculiar new addition to Aerosmith’s tour rider. Effective immediately, Steven Tyler’s private dressing room must contain a state-of-the-art, voice-activated “Archival Wardrobe.”

Official reason: “To preserve and catalog iconic stage garments.”

Whispered reality: The system is designed to scan, digitize, and verbally dismantle any garment that touches the floor. According to a leaked spec sheet, the unit’s AI is programmed to issue a public, recorded statement to the crew, including the phrase: “This material is now forever. The memory is mine.”

This is not about clothing. This is about evidence sanitization. Someone is terrified of a forgotten scarf, a single thread. The question is: what are they hiding from? Their past, or their future?