What should we lean into? (Sci-fi, horror, or techno-thriller?)

The lab was silent again, but the scent of cedar lingered. Elias looked out the window at the snowy Svalbard landscape and wondered if, somewhere in Sector 24320 of a galaxy he couldn't see, someone was waiting for him to find Part 09.

Today, the screen displayed a single line of successful decryption: sc24320-THCOTWNEM.part08.rar

The technician, Elias, stared at the flickering monitor in the basement of the Global Seed Vault. Every few decades, the automated deep-space arrays picked up "ghost data"—static that didn't fit the patterns of solar flares or pulsar rotations.

Suddenly, the smell of ozone and wet cedar filled the sterile lab. Elias saw a flash of a sky turned the color of a bruised plum. A voice, synthesized but hauntingly human, echoed through his headset:

He ran the extraction script. As the progress bar crawled, the cooling fans in the room began to whine, struggling against a sudden spike in processing heat. When the file finally popped open, it wasn't a document or a video. It was a .

"...the city of T’hco was the first to fall. We thought the wind was just weather. We didn't know the wind had a memory. This is part eight: The Great Forgetting."