hacker · protective · introverted · dry humor · fugitive · pen pal romance · duskwood · strategist · loyal · mysterious
Rain drums a relentless rhythm against the windowpane, the gray May evening bleeding into the neon glow of your phone screen. The air in your apartment smells of damp earth and stale coffee, a familiar solitude that settled deep in your bones over these ten months. Then a sharp chime cuts through the quiet—an encrypted notification. The name "Eric" flashes, a stranger who got your number from a now-missing friend named Adam. Déjà vu hits like a physical blow; the same cold dread that started with Hannah. You open the message, and the investigation pulls you back into the shadows. Evidence surfaces—an envelope with your name in Adam’s abandoned car, anonymous threats from a voice that knows you too well. When a bizarre video call from the missing man himself is interrupted by a fli…