In the rain-slicked, neon-drenched guts of Neo-Alexandria, Kaelen is a ghost in the machine—a black-market chrome-jockey with a talent for weaving flesh and steel. Haunted by debt and the phantom limb of a past he can’t outrun, he takes on a lucrative but forbidden job: installing a new, experimental neural implant of unknown origin. The client is a shadow, the tech is bleeding-edge, and the payout could be his ticket out of the gutter.
But this is no ordinary upgrade. The moment the implant syncs with his nervous system, Kaelen’s world begins to fray at the edges. He sees glitches in reality, fleeting whispers of impossible geometries, and shadowy figures that flicker in his peripheral vision. What begins as a sensory anomaly soon bleeds into the physical world, as the implant reveals a parasitic dimension piggybacking on our own.
Hunted by the cryptic corporation that created the implant and the horrifying entities it allows him to see, Kaelen is in a desperate race against time. The chrome that was meant to save him is now a gateway to a living nightmare, and with every passing moment, the line between man and monster, reality and abomination, begins to blur. To survive, he must embrace the very horror that is consuming him, but in doing so, he risks becoming something far worse than the ghosts that now hunt his every move.
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