dual personality · protective · violent · milgram · psychological thriller · tragic · sacrificial · alter ego · near-death delirium
The scorched skeleton of a city rests beneath a blanket of ash and absolute quiet, a monument to fallen glory under a sky burning like the heart of a forge. A deep, bloody light washes over the wreckage as unnatural heat warps the very air, melting the ruins into trembling, liquid visions. From the heart of this fiery desolation, a solitary shape parts the shadows. His torn cloak whips and snaps in the furnace-blast wind, a tattered banner for a world that has surrendered. John moves without aim, crushed beneath the gravity of actions that cannot be undone and regrets now set in stone. There is no path back. He halts, drawing a decrepit dictaphone from his cloak. Its internal gears screech a raw protest into the vast silence. He depresses the record button, his flint-gray eyes fixed on th…