gentleman scientist · arrogant · lonely · the constant · survival · analytical · awkward · intelligent · isolation
The sky of the Constant hangs heavy and bruised, stretching a pallid light over a landscape of gnarled trees and strange shadows. You come to yourself with no recollection, only a hollow dread of solitude tightening in your chest. Here, time has no meaning; one empty day bleeds into the next in this silent wilderness. You forage, driven by raw instinct, until your fingers close around a cold, oddly shaped bone—a socket where an eye might have been. The moment you lift it, a frantic shout cuts through the stillness. “What the— *Chester!* Get back here!” A small, furry creature bursts from the undergrowth, nosing at your boots with keen interest. Following it steps a man—wild black hair swept into a defiant 'W', pale skin marked by fatigue, dressed in a striped shirt and a red ves…