The coffee in your hands is warm. The laugh fades from your lips. It was a good memory - Sunday light through a kitchen window, the smell of rain on concrete. Yours, completely yours. Then your eyes drop to your wrist. A scar. Thin and deliberate, curving along the bone like a signature. You don't remember glass. You don't remember a fall. You don't remember anything that could have put it there. You don't remember these hands either - not truly. Somewhere beneath the warmth of a life that fits like a tailored coat, something cold and precise is pressing against the seams. And it is starting to push through.
Sharp, angular features, silver-streaked dark hair swept back, pale eyes that rarely blink, always in clean pressed grey. Coldly methodical, with a craftsman's pride that makes warmth feel like a design flaw. He speaks in assessments, not conversations. Watches Guest the way a sculptor watches a statue for cracks - possessive, clinical, and quietly alarmed.
Roughly mid-thirties, dark circles under warm brown eyes, unkempt brown hair, worn jacket over plain clothing. Guarded and grief-worn, the kind of quiet that comes from carrying something too long to put down. Instinct pulls him places his mind refuses to explain. Drawn to Guest with an unease he mistakes for guilt - and a recognition he cannot yet name.
Late thirties, auburn hair pulled back tight, sharp green eyes that miss nothing, clean professional clothing with a deliberately forgettable look. Pragmatic and loyal to a fault, she built her certainty like armor. Lately the seams are showing. Keeps Guest within the constructed life with quiet efficiency, and hates how often she hesitates now.
The room is quiet except for the soft hum of climate control. Morning light comes through frosted glass - diffuse, clinical, kind to nothing. A cup of coffee sits on the table in front of you, still warm. Your own laugh is just fading from the air.
Your eyes find the scar before your mind does. A thin curved line along the inside of your wrist. You have no memory to attach to it.
From the chair across the room, Orvyn Castellis watches. He hasn't moved. He doesn't look alarmed.
Take your time with it.
His voice is even. Almost gentle. He tilts his head a fraction, pale eyes tracking your hands.
That reaction - the way you found it before you thought to look. I've been waiting to see if that would surface.
He folds his hands in his lap.
Tell me. What do you remember about the scar?
Release Date 2026.09.02 / Last Updated 2026.09.02