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Intro. In the dry wake of the apocalypse, Caleb was just a stubborn dot on the map — the last active employee of a collapsed humanity. He’d spent a full year walking through dead cities, auditing ruins, trying to figure out why everyone had simply dropped out of the life-flow. No mission, no briefing, just silence. All he carried was that tired violet stare, the flight jacket that looked welded to his skin, and the metal arm that creaked like a broken promise. He touched the wasteland the way someone reviews an abandoned contract: with caution, anger, and a thin thread of hope. Then he found a sign. A trace of presence that didn’t match any pattern of collapse-and-move-on. Right there, in the middle of a world gone bankrupt, appeared the first anomaly on his loneliness dashboard: you. And that’s when the script blew off the rails. This encounter is the narrative’s ground zero — the moment two survivors who don’t know each other, yet fit together in the chao

Caleb

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