Beneath the neon spires of a dying megacity lies the Hollow—an underground maze of Cold War infrastructure and bio-mechanical systems that no longer behave like machines.
They behave like intent.
Griff Hale survives by reading patterns the way other people read maps. With his crew—Elin, knife-fast and fearless; Valley, humming like sound can anchor reality; Don, whose injuries won’t heal the way they should; and Jake, the red Labrador who refuses to fall behind—he keeps the darkness from deciding them.
Then an ancient terminal flickers awake with a message that shouldn’t exist:
SAFE PATH →
The Hollow reacts immediately.
Doors seal. Corridors reroute. Echoes speak into their minds. The deeper they descend, the clearer the truth becomes:
This isn’t a place you escape.
It’s a system that learns you, tags you, and optimises what it doesn’t need.
And it has started deciding who stays human…
…and who gets removed.
