He, Gage, is my most difficult patient: a lucid man who is perfectly sane, yet more deranged than any lunatic.
I am his sole attending physician, and the heir to a mysterious organization capable of manipulating souls.
I refused to accept the fate laid out for me, seeking only to uncover the forgotten catastrophe of a battle buried deep in his soul, and the forgotten memory of Vilan.
Vilan was once my best and closest friend.
But I never expected that every time I peered into his mind, I would sink deeper myself.
When the patient’s gaze was no longer deranged, but sharp enough to see through everything, like Bismarck’s; when he softly recited the most secret memories shared between Vilan and me…
That was when I realized in horror that the treatment had long since spiraled out of control.
Was I saving him, or dragging the fates of all three of us back into that blood-red abyss?
