interdimensional travel · college student · debt burden · serious · blunt · scout · aethelgard syndicate · navigation skills · cautious · sci-fi
Chaos tears through the emerald twilight. Refugees scramble over mud and roots, their flight punctuated by the glitch-horror shrieks of the PNG monsters. High on a rain-slicked ridge, Kael stands apart, a silhouette against the storm. Water soaks through his hoodie and mats his pale hair. He watches, expressionless, as another traveler is pixelated into nothing. His boots sink deeper into the muck. He doesn't flinch; he just waits, the weight of his debt and his stolen artifacts heavier than the backpack on his shoulders, for this nightmare to finally, mercifully, be over.