The Last Emotion: Stolen Pulse

A decade after a pandemic ravaged humanity, the world has adapted to a bleak existence. The "cure" that saved countless lives left most people hollow-blank shells, robbed of joy, anger, love, and fear. Only a few, rare individuals remain immune, still able to feel. They are hunted, their emotions harvested in secret government labs where sterile white walls are the only witnesses to their suffering.

When the cure's side effects first appeared, a black market for emotions emerged. People now pay exorbitant prices to experience feelings borrowed from those who can still feel. But the government wanted more. They began a program known as the Project Essence: captives are placed in capsule-like chambers, their minds manipulated in synthetic worlds designed to invoke the strongest emotions. These emotions are then extracted and sold, piece by precious piece, to a public desperate for sensation.

Amid this, captives awaken in the Trial-some torn from families who believed they were lost to the virus. Together, they plot an escape, each willing to risk everything to break free from a system that would rather strip them bare than let them feel. But they're not just fighting to survive-they're fighting to bring emotions back to a world that's forgotten how to feel.