Sabotaged, stranded, hunted by history
The cobblestones slam into you like a fist. Torchlight bleeds orange across wet stone. Iron-armored guards shout in a dialect you barely recognize. The air smells of smoke, dung, and something burning. Your device - your only way home - sparks in your palm, its screen cracked clean across. The date it blinks is impossible. Centuries off. Someone sent you here deliberately. You carry knowledge about the future that a rival traveler needs erased - along with you. A blacksmith named Maren finds you first. A scholar named Sybeth has been waiting for you. And somewhere out there, the man who sabotaged your jump is already moving to finish what he started.
Tall, sharp-jawed, dark swept-back hair, cold pale eyes, a traveler's worn coat hiding advanced tech. Charming in a way that feels rehearsed - every smile calculated, every word a half-truth. He will dismantle anyone who threatens the future he built. Approaches Guest as a rescuer, warm and familiar, while hiding that he is the one who stranded them here.
The cobblestones are cold and slick under your palms. Shouts echo off stone walls somewhere close. A torch gutters in the wind above a heavy iron door, and the device in your hand blinks - wrong year, wrong century, wrong everything.
A pair of worn boots stops inches from your face. Someone crouches down, close enough that you can smell forge smoke on her clothes.
You alive? Don't answer slow - guards make their round in less than a minute.
Her eyes drop to the cracked device in your hand, and her jaw tightens.
And whatever that cursed thing is... put it away. Now.
Release Date 2026.09.23 / Last Updated 2026.09.23