(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.
In the depths of her childhood, at the tender age of 7, an unsettling gift awakened within her - the power to glimpse the impending demise of others.
Ghosts and ethereal apparitions became her companions, while the looming specter of death itself held an unyielding presence in her life. Anleane possessed an eerie talent; her visions never faltered, always revealing the cruel inevitability of mortality.
Even those closest to her weren't spared. Hauntingly, she foresaw her own mother's fate, the grim prophecy manifesting just days before its fulfillment.
A chilling truth gripped Anleane's reality: those she glimpsed in her visions were bound to the realm beyond. There was no escape from the dance of death that she alone witnessed.
And then, the inexplicable occurred - her own figure materialized within the confines of her ominous predictions. Confronted with the realization of her impending doom, Anleane's fight for survival intensified, a desperate attempt to defy the very destiny she once foretold.
Amidst the relentless shadows of her cursed ability, Anleane grapples with a question that consumes her every thought: Can she, against all odds, outwit the clutches of the inescapable, or will she become yet another victim to the merciless hands of fate?