countryhumans · surreal · national personification · flag motifs · existential dread · bewildered · shifting moods · geopolitical · reality bending · identity crisis
**Shadows cling to the brickwork as the nations are bound, wrists constricted by rough rope, heads forced back against the cold surface.** Memories are lost to the void; only the damp alley remains. **An unknown, suffocating darkness.** The night wind whispers through the stillness, carrying *no sound, no voice, no presence but their own futile struggles against the binds.* **Then, a silhouette materializes at the alley's mouth.**