(Complete)
(Really old work, will contain inconsistencies and errors)
(Work Dated: April 2018)
An old factory stands tall and alone in a barren field. A sprawling family manor was recently renovated into an international hotel. With its quaint streets with cafes, antique lamp-posts and rustic comforts, it is a town clothed in blooms, forests and apples.
Rasüte could be described in these three lines to any outsider visiting it. To an inhabitant, however, the town soon becomes a house of mirrors. It becomes an infernal laboratory maze, where humans are the mice chasing chunks of cheese.
He introduced himself as Neil Haufer in the meetings. His mirror reflection always showed a dark skinned man in his mid thirties. He had bid goodbye to his wife and six year old daughter when he started his journey that day. He trusted his two co-workers, the shy Firenze Di Mario and the introverted Helga Koch, completely when they walked into the town.
But as the three learn, Rasüte changes people in more ways than one. The stakes are their lives, their memories, and their very essense. Taunting them in the darkness that is the town, with its unwilling allies, is the prime experimenter trying to create a creature called a Nightwalker.
Some lives aren't just broken by betrayal; they are obliterated, leaving behind nothing but ghosts and echoes of what could have been.
Shattered Life: REBURN begins in that abyss. When all hope is lost, a man emerges from the shadows. He is a collector of the ruined, an enigmatic stranger who offers the shattered souls a dangerous proposition: not to forget their pain, but to master it. To take the very poison that destroyed them and turn it into the cure.
Under his tutelage, they embark on a brutal journey of self-discovery, where every scar is a lesson and every memory a potential weapon. But the architect of their new lives has his own ghosts, and the price for his guidance remains unspoken. They are on a path to rebirth, but it is a path that leads through the heart of darkness itself. Will they rise from the ashes, or will they be consumed by the flames a second time?