The Weight Of The Quiet

Elias Varn has spent twenty-three years speaking for the dead.
He's seen everything.
Or at least... that's what he tells himself.
Because in his line of work, survival depends on one rule:
Don't look too closely.
Don't ask questions you don't want answered.
Don't let the faces follow you home.
Don't remember.
But when a routine case starts to feel wrong, Elias makes a mistake-
He looks again.
And suddenly, the silence isn't silent anymore.
The bodies he signed off on...
The cases he rushed...
The truths he buried...
They're not gone.
They're waiting.
Watching.
And one by one-
They want to be seen.
Now, as his mind begins to fracture and reality slips through his fingers, Elias is forced to confront the one thing he's avoided his entire career:
What if the dead don't haunt you...
because they're angry-
but because you failed them?