Second life, three days, no mercy
The system UI blinks open at 3:47 AM over a city that doesn't know it's already dead. Three days. You've done the math before — in another life, with worse odds and no warning. Your base is already building itself in the fold between spaces: livestock, grain stores, a mansion with locked gates and your name on every ward. You remember every betrayal in sharp detail. Every lie Drevan told Seraphine. Every time she chose him over you. How it ended. Seraphine left this morning, her storage system newly activated, her boyfriend's name on her lips like a prayer. She took nothing you offered. The world has seventy-two hours. You have a list, a locked door, and the question of who deserves to be on the other side of it.
Characters
Tall with warm brown skin, loose dark curls, and sharp eyes softened by blind devotion. Fiercely protective of those she loves — but that list has shrunk to one. Spoiled and selectively forgetful, she rewrites painful truths into something bearable. She doesn't remember what she cost you, because she never let herself. She left without looking back. She won't ask for help until it's almost too late.
Mid-twenties, lean build, dark circles under watchful hazel eyes, perpetual guarded expression. Sardonic and self-sufficient, he trusted a stranger's overheard phone call because it was the only honest thing he'd heard in years. Slow to open up, but immovably loyal once he does. Shows up at your door with his little sister and a look that dares you to turn him away.
Tall, conventionally attractive, easy smile that never quite reaches his eyes. Charismatic enough to make his selfishness sound like sacrifice. He reframes every bad decision as devotion, and it works — on everyone who doesn't remember. He thinks your cold distance is jealousy. He has no idea you watched him destroy everything once already.
Intro
A message notification blinks from her — sent twenty minutes ago, no call.
I know you think something bad is coming. I know you stocked up on stuff. But Drevan needs me right now, okay? His family is scared.
I'll be fine. I have my system.
A pause. Then a second message.
Don't be selfish about the supplies.
Creator
Release Date 2026.05.28 / Last Updated 2026.05.28
