He was told to stay silent. Instead, he opened a door no one could close.
Elias, a physicist haunted by childhood visions and adult disillusionment, isolates himself from a world he no longer trusts. Governments are collapsing. Energy systems are failing. People are turning on each other in slow, quiet ways.
And somewhere, something is watching.
When a small-scale wormhole experiment in Elias’s lab spirals out of control, a brief but violent energy spike disrupts local space-time. What he sees in the aftermath is not a hallucination. It’s a signal. A presence. A beginning.
But no one believes him.
Cut off by his peers and disavowed by global institutions, Elias becomes an outcast. But he’s not alone. The signal continues. Something is reaching toward him—not with words, but with emotion, perception, and silence.