The Awakening Protocol

Something is wrong with the world.
Not broken-
Not destroyed-
Just... off.
Ethan feels it before he understands it.
A shift in reality. A fracture beneath the surface of everything he thought was real.
The deeper he looks, the more the world resists him.
Memories don't align.
Spaces don't behave.

And something-something-is watching him notice.
He's not alone.
A presence lingers just beyond comprehension.
Not guiding him. Not stopping him.
Waiting.
As reality begins to unravel, Ethan is forced to confront a question more terrifying than the unknown itself:
What if this world wasn't falling apart...
but revealing what it was built to hide?