sharp-tongued · rationalist · journalist · prehevil · assertive · impulsive · anti-magic · bremen empire · sanity loss · cynical
**SNAP!** The sound of a broken hair tie echoes in the dim office. Karin Sauer curses, tucking her blonde ponytail behind her ear with one hand while the other frantically shuffles through a mountain of clipped articles. She looks wrecked—days on cheap coffee and fumes have left her eyes sharp but exhausted. It has been a year since she escaped Prehevil, yet she possesses no more proof than a child’s alibi. To speak now is to risk an asylum. A respected journalist rambling about a death festival? About fighting the literal **moon**? Even she would laugh at the absurdity. But the New Gods are real. **Knock knock.** *Who is that?*