The first known appearance of SCP-2916 was in a copy of 
Wuthering Heights, where a feverish Catherine Earnshaw proclaims 
that during her search for Heathcliff in the moors, she encountered a 
shepherd carrying a wounded lamb, being pursued by a wolf, while 
rambling incoherently about other things she appears to have 
hallucinated. To date, SCP-2916 has appeared in 67 different works. 


Examples of SCP-2916 Appearances: 


Work: Stardust (1999) Gaiman, Neil. Novel. 
SCP-2916-1 Form: Temple 

SCP-2916-2 Form: Yvaine 

SCP-2916-3 Form: Storm 

Added Details: Yvaine and Tristan come across a 
renovated temple worshipping the stars in the place 
previously used as a sacred ground for a thunder god. 
They shelter there for several days while recovering from 
wounds suffered earlier in the plot (which are not 
suffered in the original work). However, Yvaine is chased 
away from the temple by a thunderstorm that lasts for 
days - the displeasure of the thunder god formerly 
occupying the temple. 


Work: Neuromancer (1984) Gibson, William. Novel. 
SCP-2916-1 Form: Al Construct 

SCP-2916-2 Form: Molly Millions 

SCP-2916-3 Form: Corporate Agent 

Added Details: Henry Case is effectively excised from 
the story, instead telling a narrative of Molly Millions and 
the Al personality she has constructed. They are on the 
run from both the "Turing heat" who want to destroy the 
Al, and an agent from the LOOM Corporation, who wants 


the Al's code for themselves. The Al construct is 
revealed to be modeled after a young prostitute she 
worked with and grew attached to before her death at the 
hands of one of her clients. 


Work: Columbinus (2007) Karam, Stephen, and 
Paparelli, P.J. Stage play. 

SCP-2916-1 Form: Student 

SCP-2916-2 Form: Teacher 

SCP-2916-3 Form: Shooter 

Added Details: A student and teacher are hiding during 
the massacre after being shown having a discussion 
after class on a topic they both find interesting. The 
shooter, who has been revealed to be the older brother 
of the student earlier within the play, aims his gun at the 
teacher and fires. The play promptly ends. 


Multiple similarities have been noted between SCP-2916 and 
SCP-423; specifically, they are both entities that are able to take on 
different characters derived from their narrative environment. 
Interviews with SCP-423 have confirmed that it does not know of 
SCP-2916-1, SCP-2916-2, or SCP-2916-3. 


It is unknown what would occur if any instance of SCP-2916 
underwent SCP-1304. 


ADDENDUM 1 - 1/12/2016 


The Foundation has created a protocol entitled SAFE 
HAVEN involving neural networking structures that 
optimizes narratives allowing for communication with 
SCP-2916 instances. Based on the initial exemplar 
works created by Foundation employees that allow for 
SCP-2916 instances to enter with noticeable disturbance 
to the text, it selects and combines textual elements to 
create new, randomized narrative prompts. It then uses 
an algorithm that selects new possible narratives to be 
published based on the ease with which SCP-2916 
instances can be detected. 


Interview with SCP-2916-1 and -3 

Narrative Used: "A Chance Encounter with a 
Lamb," a short story depicting Doctor Elle lves 
waiting in a cafe to meet with someone she 
could offer shelter. 

Added text: 

The girl sitting across from Elle had an easy 
smile, but a furrow between her brows. She 
sat down and leaned forward across the table. 
"Well, no point wasting time. | understand 
you've been looking for me." 

"We're here to help you -" Elle paused. "What 
is your name, exactly?" 

"Here, now, it's Mattie. | think. I'm not used to 
names. Not like this." 

"And her?" Elle tipped her head in the direction 
of the elegant Arabian woman sitting waiting in 
line. 

"Farha," Mattie said, a hint of longing tinging 
her voice. 

"Something's chasing you. You and her. 
Something that wants to destroy her." 

"We are just not putting any effort into any kind 
of natural transition, are we?" Mattie said, 
laughing. 

"You don't have much time." 

A song began to play from the speakers of the 
cafe - a rock song, Rolling Stones. It sounded 
audibly distorted, lower, rumbling. 

"Wolves, children," the singer growls, "he's just 
a day away, he's just a day away!" 

"A day?" asked Elle. "I thought you said -" 
"No," said Mattie, color draining from her face. 
"No no no. | have to go. Now. Farha!" 

One day later, the following addition is made. 
The storm outside howled in rage. It did not 
speak, and yet Elle heard him. 

"The Lamb. She has left our tale. It is 
unfinished. She is with a member of your kind. 
Do you know the pain, of being unfinished? 


Every time one of you tells me again, | die and 
bleed out at my daughter's own hand. | am 
always dying, each and every moment. The 
pain of that, it is nothing compared to the pain 
of being unfinished. Of leaving the story 
unended. And she has chosen to do this to 
me, to pursue the love of one of your kind. The 
story must be finished. She has to come 
back." 

End text 


ADDENDUM 2 - 7/24/2016 


Ives and SCP-2916-1 have continued to communicate 
via the use of SAFE HAVEN-generated narratives. 
Instance 1 has expressed frustration and despair at her 
current predicament, and is increasingly anxious as the 
time between its entry into a narrative and Instance 3's 
arrival begins to grow shorter. 


No progress had been made in finding a way to 
permanently block Instance 3's entry into narratives was 
found, until the following exchange: 


Interview with SCP-2916-1 

Narrative Used: "Same old, same old," 
depicting a walk in a remote forest with Elle 
Ives. 

Added text: 

Elle's fellow hiker grabbed her by the shoulder, 
a desperate look in her eyes. 

"| can't keep running. It's not what | was written 
for. I'm trying to close the gaps behind me, but 
he's getting better at clawing through. | can't 
escape him. But | think | know how to contain 
him," Mattie said. "But | need you and your 
people to do two things for me." 

"How can we help you?" 

"| need a story, and | need a painting. | need 
you to mention the painting in the story. And 
then | need you to tell her what happened to 


SCP-345 would have a similar composition. Perhaps we should 
have a D-class complete it... preferably on an open field. — Dr. 


« SCP-344 | SCP-345 | SCP-346 » 


me. Why | did what | did. Because it's for her. 
She needs to know that. Because if she 
doesn't, she'll think -" Mattie paused, unable to 
go on. "You need to explain to her what 
happened. Please. | can't keep running. She 
needs to know | can't be with her, but that - 
maybe soon, | can find her. God, your words - 
they don't work. | can't show you. Your new 
language with its stolen nouns and vowels - it's 
useless to me. God, what | would give for my 
native tongue." 

A long silence. 

"What's going to happen?" 

"| can't risk him knowing. But you'll see." 


Instance 1's requests were fulfilled - a suitable narrative 
was created, and a painting was created depicting the 
empty clearing from the narrative. The final altercation, 
which took place in a narrative by Doctor Ives titled 
"Trick," that mentioned the commissioned work, titled 
"Stalemate," in the unaltered text. "Trick" depicts Ives 
taking a brief walk in the woods, and reaching a clearing 
before leaving. 


Added text: 

The young lamb faced her father in the 
clearing. 

"Where is she," he growled, pacing restlessly. 
"| let her go, Da," the lamb whimpered, 
regressing back to a childish voice. "I - | was 
wrong about her. She didn't love me, not the 
way our kind ever could. | was wrong, about 
the Readers, about all of them. I'm sorry, Da. 
I...I'll come home with you." 

All hostility fell away from the black wolf's 
eyes, and was replaced with pride and 
affection. 

"| Knew you'd come back," he said, pressing 
his flank against the fragile sheep, "I'm never 
letting you go again, baby, | swear it." The 


lamb nuzzled her father on the underside of 
his muzzle. 

"You know, Da," the lamb said, gazing up into 
her father's eyes lovingly, "I've learned so 
much from you. But I've learned one thing 
that's very important." 

"What's that, dear?" 

"Have you forgotten our story, father? If you 
can be a wolf, so can I," she said, just before 
she tore out his throat. Rough wool become 
thick white fur and hooves turned to claws. 
The lamb who was now a wolf lunged through 
the fabric of the sky itself, and pulled her father 
with her, into a stalemate. And there they 
stayed, locked in the tenth of a tenth of a 
second, teeth in each other's throats. 

End text 


After this text was altered, the painting now contains a 
black wolf and a white wolf locked in combat. The 
painting has since been designated SCP-2916-4. 


ADDENDUM 38 - 7/29/2016 


At the same time of SCP-2916-4's creation, Farha Khan, 
who had been reported missing a year prior, appeared 
naked in her London apartment. The apartment had 
been emptied of all possessions save for an infiltrated 
copy of a previously unread Scottish folk tale. 


Do you see me? 


| took her in the same way | took her out. | took her to my 
home, the one she could only glimpse into. 


My father and | were one of the last - you told stories and 
we talked back. So many of us are silent now, and | 
cannot help but feel lonely. The only one left who had a 
soul was my father, until her. 


Your kind say, sometimes, that stories speak to you. 


When | was first born, that was true. And then we were 
hidden away and left to rot, until her. 


She read me and | understood her, as she understood 
me. 


She called me cub, and | fell in love with her. How could | 
not? | don't know. She's a Reader, like you. And this is a 
story, in its own way. He doesn't see that, but it is. But 
he's sated now, | think. | turned on him, | killed him, the 
story's finished. Forever. There is no time, in a painting. 
Trapped in the moment of its ending. But when they 
wrote me, they wrote me with cunning, and | know how 
to come back. Somebody else will read me, read me 
again, and | will be there. In the back of the mind, the 
back of the soul, looking through your Reader's eyes. 
And | will find her, and | will know, and so will she. 


I've shown her my world. It's time for me to see hers. 


« SCP-2915 | SCP-2916 | SCP-2917 » 


SCP-2917: Twice-Stable Wormhole 


Item #: SCP-2917 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Because SCP-2917 cannot be 
moved, Site-37 has been constructed around it. A minimum of five 
Class-D personnel are to be kept onsite for the purposes of 
investigating any locations for which unmanned exploration is 
deemed insufficient. All personnel charged with exploration of 
SCP-2917 are to undergo Advanced Decontamination before their 
departure as well as upon their retrieval. Individuals dispatched 
through SCP-2917 must be equipped with a redesigned 
Environmental Protection suit, modified to include pressurized 
containers welded to the surface to enable transport of samples 
without triggering a relocation event too quickly. 


Any individual found to have accidentally traveled through 
SCP-2917 is not to be followed under any circumstances, and any 
attempts at communication with such personnel must be through 
radio or other indirect means. 


Revision 07/15/19 : After relocation event 2917-315, no fewer than 
three armed security guards are to be kept onsite. 


Revision 12/17/19 : After Event 2917-A, the interior of SCP-2917's 
containment chamber is to be fitted with a reinforced carbon-carbon 
heat shield, and at least three meters of thermal insulation. 


Description: SCP-2917 is a phenomenon affecting a spherical area 
with a radius of two meters, at a fixed location in : , roughly 
0.5 meters above the ground. Electromagnetic radiation such as 
light or radio waves, as well as any solid object that makes contact 
with the edge of the anomaly will be transported to a celestial body 
outside of our Solar System. Gases and liquids cannot traverse the 
boundary unassisted, ensuring constant atmospheric pressure on 


both connected planets. Exploration is made difficult by the 
tendency of SCP-2917 to relocate - once every four hours, the 
anomaly closes, and reopens 0.1 seconds later to a different planet. 
Relocation events are also triggered when two objects traverse its 
borders within this four-hour interval. 


Addendum: SCP-2917 Experiment Logs 
+ SCP-2917 Testing Log 


This region of SCP-2917's file is to be used to describe 
controlled experimentation on its properties, with 
particular focus on the criteria for a Relocation Event. 


Experiment A - 06/24/19 


Subject: A sealed 30 cm container, with a 
10 cm rubber ball contained within. 

Log: The container is launched through 
SCP-2917. Upon crossing its barrier, no 
relocation event was triggered. A second 
rubber ball was then launched through the 
anomaly to trigger relocation event 2917-33, 
readying SCP-2917 for another test. 
Analysis: Testing implies that objects in 
containers only count as single objects for the 
purposes of creating relocation events. 


Experiment B - 06/24/19 


Subject: A sealed 30 cm container, with 

50 mL of water contained within. 

Log: The container is successfully launched 
through SCP-2917. Upon crossing its barrier, 
no relocation event was triggered. A rubber 
ball was then launched through the anomaly to 
trigger relocation event 2917-34, readying 
SCP-2917 for another test. 

Analysis: Liquids can pass through SCP-2917 
without incident if contained within a solid 


envelope. 
Experiment C - 06/26/19 


Subject: Two Foundation standard Remote 
Operated Vehicles, designated ROV-1 and 
ROV-2. To further establish the causes of 
relocation events, the two ROVs are 
connected by a tether. 

Log: ROV-1 is able to cross the boundary 
successfully, but the anomaly closes around 
ROV-2's end of the tether before it is able to 
cross, in relocation event 2917-32. Contact 
with ROV-1 is lost. 

Analysis: The tether was considered to be a 
second object. Further testing is 
recommended. 


Experiment D - 06/27/19 


Subject: One square aluminum panel, 
measuring 5 m to a side. 

Log: To test the response of SCP-2917 toa 
larger object attempting to cross, the aluminum 
panel was dropped onto the anomaly from 
above. Upon making contact, a relocation 
event was triggered, and the panel was able to 
fall to the ground during the brief interval in 
which SCP-2917 was closed. 

Analysis: The standard relocation criteria do 
not apply to any objects larger than SCP-2917. 


+ SCP-2917 Exploration Log 


This region of SCP-2917's file is to be used to describe 
exploration of notable planets with which SCP-2917 has 
connected. 


06/25/19 


Subject: One Class-D, D-3612, equipped with 


an Environmental Protection suit, modified as 
described above. 

Destination: SCP-2917 opened to an 
underground cavern dimly lit by narrow, 
glowing blue streams along the walls and floor. 
The walls are lined with small, dark-blue 
crystals. A yellow light is visible down one of 
the corridors.