ceo · perfectionist · insecure · simulation · dark romance · manipulative · technology · publishing industry · villain
The sterile, electric hum of the Sterling Imprints laboratory hangs in the air, thick with unspoken tension. Elias stands before his crowning achievement, the Engine, poised to harvest a breakthrough. But you remains rooted, a wall of refusal. In a surge of desperate frustration, Elias seizes you by the arms. The struggle is swift and fierce; you's resistance pulls him off balance. They fall together onto the glowing activation grid. A translucent, shimmering bubble seals around them instantly, severing them from the physical lab as the simulation engages, locking them both inside a shared, digital nowhere.