Unconnected...

Garth Davidson has spent his entire life fading into the background.
A forgotten foster kid turned invisible adult, he grew up doing chores for a family that treated him like a live‑in servant. The military discharged him for "failure to adapt." His students ignore him. His coworkers dump their work on him. Even the woman he loved for five years walked out-after cheating on him for months with someone he once called a friend.

On a quiet Monday afternoon after one final betrayal breaks something deep inside him, Garth climbs the chain‑link fence on the roof of the school where he teaches. One leg over. Arms out. Ready to let go.

Then the world below him erupts.

A cosmic digital intelligence-an ancient, wandering force that travels through networks and reconstitutes matter-descends on Earth. It doesn't infect people. It doesn't rewrite their minds. It hijacks their technology and uses it as a doorway to manifest creatures made of corrupted data and living flesh.

They tear through the school grounds in seconds. Students scatter. Teachers run. Some escape. Many don't. Fires ignite across town. Police cars scream down the main road as the first wave of digital‑flesh horrors spreads outward.

Garth watches it all from the rooftop.

He survives the opening attack for one simple reason:

He smashed his phone moments before climbing the fence.

No device.
No signal.
No doorway for the entity to reach him.

He isn't chosen.
He isn't special.
He's just one of the few people the cosmic force didn't immediately detect.

One of the few left...
Unconnected.

Now, as the world unravels into a nightmare of glitch‑born monsters and collapsing reality, Garth must decide whether to keep disappearing into the background-or step forward for the first time in his life. Not to save the world. Not to be a hero.

But because he's finally found something he can't walk away from.

The end of everything.