Chapter 1: Beneath the Blazing Silence

She wakes in the sand, breath tight, heart racing.
The sun burns above.
The desert stretches without end.
She runs-not toward safety, but away from something she can't name.

Places shift.
A spiral staircase.
An alley.
A hospital.
None of it makes sense.

But her fear does.
It's the only thing that feels real.
And it's getting louder.