The first thing he did was not open a browser. Not log into a game. He picked up the phone and called his sister—the one who had kicked him out.
He awoke not in a hospital, but in a void. A silent, endless gray plane. Before him stood a being of impossible geometry: a calm, smiling god with eyes like spinning galaxies.
And the watcher screamed into the void.
The screen flickered. He saw a hospital bed. A thin, pale version of his old body. A single nurse checking his vitals.
And so began the nameless watcher's torment. For years, he floated in that gray prison, staring into the life of "Rudeus Greyrat."
"Yes," the watcher whispered. "I wasn't watching him. I was watching me . If I had just… tried."
This is my second life. And I'm not going to waste it.
The first thing he did was not open a browser. Not log into a game. He picked up the phone and called his sister—the one who had kicked him out.
He awoke not in a hospital, but in a void. A silent, endless gray plane. Before him stood a being of impossible geometry: a calm, smiling god with eyes like spinning galaxies.
And the watcher screamed into the void.
The screen flickered. He saw a hospital bed. A thin, pale version of his old body. A single nurse checking his vitals.
And so began the nameless watcher's torment. For years, he floated in that gray prison, staring into the life of "Rudeus Greyrat."
"Yes," the watcher whispered. "I wasn't watching him. I was watching me . If I had just… tried."
This is my second life. And I'm not going to waste it.