The thing that took the woman by the shoulders had no hand.

The Fade has reached the Commons — and it leaves no bodies, only the missing. In the wreckage of pure absence, the survivors do the only thing they can with a grief they cannot bury: they speak the names. Then an old man tells Kai a story he'd hoped to die without telling — of a buried thing, far below, that holds a place still.

Chapter 2 of WHAT REMAINS. Runtime ~24 min. ▶ Also on YouTube. 🎧 Headphones, lights off.