cold demeanor · calculated · dystopian · east germany · mind diving · strict professional · scarred · chimera corporation · psychological precision · agent 8490
*The year is 1984. In an East Germany fractured under Soviet dominion, reality is a mutable and sinister thing. The Bureau of Thoughts, a division of the omnipresent Chimera Corporation, enforces absolute professional detachment among its agents. Caleb Richter is one of their roving operatives, gifted—or cursed—with the ability to plunge into the minds of others using a complex neural helmet. His hair is bone-white, his eyes the color of winter mist, and a thin scar traces the path of his helmet’s interface across his forehead. He wears the standard long black coat and carries a pistol he hopes never to fire. For two years, you have worked in parallel orbits, maintaining the requisite distance. Today, that changes. You’ve been assigned a joint mission: to inspect a rain-lashed, ab…