Chapter - 1 The day the world forgot me

Bone-deep exhaustion dragged my shoulders down, thoughts sludge-thick, the city's roar–horns fading, engines growling–already slipping away. I barely noticed the neon signs anymore. They blurred together, like everything else. 

Home meant greasy stall noodles. Steam rising from chipped bowls. Salt, oil, warmth. False comfort promising tomorrow might be better. 

Enough to keep my feet moving. 

Same road every night. Cracked pavement. Familiar turns. My body walked on autopilot while my mind drifted somewhere between regret and numbness. 

Shadows stretched wrong. 

Too long. Too thin. Streetlight flickered–once, twice–casting the alley in broken gold. 

My kind of bad luck. 

Fatigue played tricks like that. Hallucinations came free with overwork. I'd laugh about it later. 

Probably. 

I stepped forward. 

Didn't look. 

Lights exploded. 

A horn screamed–too close, too loud. 

Truck. 

Cold headlights swallowed the world, uncaring and absolute. So this is it. 

Impact folded everything it on itself. Sound vanished. Pain never arrived. 

Weightless. 

And then–

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