In an abandoned church draped in cobwebs and buried beneath rubble, Elias—a young college student with a taste for urban exploration—wanders the dust-choked halls.
Among shattered pews and crumbling stone, something catches his eye: a massive slate, unlike anything he's ever seen. Adorned in gold and untouched by time, it rests in silence, with one phrase carved deep into its surface:
"Through starless sky and silent flame..."
The moment he reads the words aloud, the slate begins to glow.
Before he can move, the world goes black.
Then—weightlessness.
As if the ground, the air, even gravity itself has abandoned him.
He floats through the void, swallowed by something that feels far too big to be real.
And whether he meant to or not... Elias has already sealed his fate.