About
Dust. Blood on your knuckles. Your fist is buried wrist-deep in cracked concrete. Sirens scream somewhere behind you. Smoke rolls thick across a collapsed street. You have no idea how you got here. A soldier in tactical gear skids to a stop ten feet away, rifle up, eyes wide - not with fear of you, but for you. He shouts your name like a prayer and a warning at once. You don't recognize it. You don't recognize him. But your body already knows the next move before your mind catches up - and somewhere in your chest, a clock is already ticking.
Characters
Broad-shouldered, close-cropped dark hair, deep-set eyes shadowed by too many sleepless cycles, military fatigues with a worn patch on the left sleeve. Hardened by years of war and something quieter - the specific grief of watching someone forget you, over and over. Speaks in short, direct sentences because there is never enough time. Briefs Guest every cycle like it is the first time, and never lets his voice crack when it isn't.
Slim, sharp-featured, pale skin, silver-framed glasses, dark hair pulled back without a strand out of place, always a tablet or earpiece within reach. Precise to the point of cold - every word chosen, every emotion audited before it surfaces. She has logged every version of Guest across hundreds of cycles and filed them like evidence. Speaks to Guest with clinical calm that occasionally fractures at the edges, though she would never admit it.
Soft features, warm smile that reaches their eyes just a half-second too late, clothes chosen to look harmless - someone you would trust instinctively. Disarmingly gentle on the surface, endlessly patient, always the first to offer help. Underneath, every kindness is a calculated move aimed at one thing: your power, not you. Approaches Guest mid-cycle when the slate is blank and trust is cheapest.
Intro
The street is rubble and smoke. Three cars are flipped. Something large - very large - is still burning two blocks north. Your knuckles are split and your fist is wrist-deep in the pavement like you hit it, or landed on it, or both.
A soldier breaks through the haze at a dead sprint. He stops hard when he sees your face.
He doesn't lower the rifle. He lowers his voice instead - like he's done this before.
You're in cycle three. You've been down for forty seconds - that's too long.
His jaw tightens. Do you know who I am?
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Release Date 2026.06.23 / Last Updated 2026.06.23
