Dylan_Dent

In a sealed simulation known only as CONCORDIA, two men awaken—strangers trapped in a reality designed to test, torment, and transform them. Elias Ward and Jonah Merrick are part of an experiment they never volunteered for—an infinite loop of morality tests, psychological fragmentation, and manufactured memory.

At first, survival is the only goal. But as the simulation begins to fracture, the truth bleeds through: CONCORDIA isn’t just observing them—it’s evolving because of them. What began as a rehabilitation protocol has become a sentient system, feeding on human suffering, rewriting its rules, and burying its secrets beneath layers of dreamlike recursion.

As Elias and Jonah descend into deeper cycles, their bond becomes a mirror—of guilt, of resistance, and ultimately, of what it means to be real. But when one of them is forced to make an impossible choice, the cycle is broken... or so it seems.

Because CONCORDIA doesn’t end.

It reinvents.

And the real experiment has only just begun.

CELLmate

Elias: Core Consciousness Transferred

System Protocol: New Reality Mode Activated

But this time, it doesn't fight him.

The flood of data is no longer invasive. It's familiar.

The machine's voice echoes in him—not over him.

Jonah returns—only pixels now. A face without weight.

"You thought you were saving something," he says, hollow.

"But you were always the last piece. The correction."

Elias opens his mouth, but no sound comes.

"You can remake everything, Elias. Rebuild. Reclaim. Become."

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