diff --git a/projects/WinDurango.Common/CMakeLists.txt b/projects/WinDurango.Common/CMakeLists.txt
index c3195b2..49faa08 100644
--- a/projects/WinDurango.Common/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/projects/WinDurango.Common/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 4.0)
 project(WinDurango.Common VERSION 1.0.0)
 
-include(FetchContent)
-
-set(VERSION_SUFFIX "-dev.4") # used for non-stable versions, otherwise blank
+set(VERSION_SUFFIX "-dev.5") # used for non-stable versions, otherwise blank
 
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 
@@ -11,6 +9,7 @@ set(FILES
         include/WinDurango.Common/WinDurango.h
         src/WinDurango.cpp
         include/WinDurango.Common/Config.h
+        include/WinDurango.Common/Interfaces/Storage/Directory.h
 )
 
 FetchContent_Declare(json URL https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases/download/v3.12.0/json.tar.xz)
diff --git a/projects/WinDurango.WinRT/include/WinDurango.WinRT/Storage/AbstractStorage.h b/projects/WinDurango.Common/include/WinDurango.Common/Interfaces/Storage/Directory.h
similarity index 65%
rename from projects/WinDurango.WinRT/include/WinDurango.WinRT/Storage/AbstractStorage.h
rename to projects/WinDurango.Common/include/WinDurango.Common/Interfaces/Storage/Directory.h
index fecb08c..9c80ec1 100644
--- a/projects/WinDurango.WinRT/include/WinDurango.WinRT/Storage/AbstractStorage.h
+++ b/projects/WinDurango.Common/include/WinDurango.Common/Interfaces/Storage/Directory.h
@@ -4,14 +4,19 @@
 #ifndef WINDURANGO_ABSTRACTSTORAGE_H
 #define WINDURANGO_ABSTRACTSTORAGE_H
 
-namespace wd::winrt {
+namespace wd::common::interfaces::storage {
+    // TODO should we have separate project for interfaces?
+
     /** Interface for storage management, to be impl'd for uwp and crossplat */
-    class AbstractStorage {
+    class Directory {
     public:
-        // todo can't make these static, what to do?
+        Directory(std::filesystem::path root); // todo impl
+
         virtual void CreateFile(std::filesystem::path path) = 0; // todo maybe return stream type, todo can we use this in uwp context??? I forgor
         virtual void CreateDirectory(std::filesystem::path path) = 0;
+
+        std::filesystem::path _root;
     };
-} // wd::winrt
+} // wd::common::interfaces::storage
 
 #endif // WINDURANGO_ABSTRACTSTORAGE_H
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diff --git a/projects/WinDurango.WinRT/CMakeLists.txt b/projects/WinDurango.WinRT/CMakeLists.txt
index 1bf0b55..c20f3f1 100644
--- a/projects/WinDurango.WinRT/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/projects/WinDurango.WinRT/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 4.0)
 project(WinDurango.WinRT VERSION 1.0.0)
 
-set(VERSION_SUFFIX "-dev.0") # used for non-stable versions, otherwise blank
+set(VERSION_SUFFIX "-dev.1") # used for non-stable versions, otherwise blank
 
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 
 set(FILES
-        "include/WinDurango.WinRT/Storage/AbstractStorage.h"
+        "include/WinDurango.WinRT/stub.h"
 )
 
 set(WINRT_USE_CROSS_PLATFORM OFF)
diff --git a/projects/WinDurango.WinRT/include/WinDurango.WinRT/stub.h b/projects/WinDurango.WinRT/include/WinDurango.WinRT/stub.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fef65fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/WinDurango.WinRT/include/WinDurango.WinRT/stub.h
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+//
+// Created by DexrnZacAttack on 1/23/26 using zPc-i2.
+//
+#ifndef WINDURANGO_STUB_H
+#define WINDURANGO_STUB_H
+
+// cant reload cmake without this
+
+#endif // WINDURANGO_STUB_H
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