STEP BROTHER DEAREST
What if I’m the one who breaks rhythm?
Ian grunted, eyes widening as his reflection warped across a shattered mirror. Dozens of Ians grinned back—some triumphant, some broken, some bleeding out in alleys where his recklessness had finally caught up. *You’ll laugh until it kills you. You’ll throw yourself into the abyss because you think you can beat it, and the abyss will laugh last.*
Vera trembled as the abyss bent into her, showing her city streets overgrown with silence, libraries burning to ash, friends’ faces dissolving into nothingness. *You were never enough to save them. You’re just the witness. The one who remembers failure.*