Chapter 1: The City of Shadows

Everhollow was a city consumed by twilight. Its architecture, a Gothic ballet of steel and glass, mirrored the bleakness of its inhabitants' souls. Amidst this industrial behemoth lived Elara, a cog in the relentless machinery of progress. Days were a monotonous rhythm of labor, nights a fleeting respite before the dawn's cruel awakening.

Her existence was a canvas painted in shades of gray until the night the sky shattered. A meteor, a celestial harbinger of doom, streaked across the heavens, its fiery descent a macabre ballet of destruction. It crashed into the city's outskirts, leaving behind a crater and an ominous, oily substance that seeped into the earth like a malignant tide. This was Abyss.