FT

Reality is just an illusion we all agree on—until the paint starts to peel. During a quiet autumn night at Edson Mason’s house, quiet and intensely observant teenager Malachaias Baker introduces a powerful psychedelic meant to warp the senses. But instead of a typical trip, Malachaias is pulled entirely out of the waking world and thrust into a haunting, 1700s dreamcore mindstate. Within this surreal landscape of decaying elegance, echoing clockwork, and endless liminal spaces, he confronts HONESTEE—an eerie, porcelain-masked entity that personifies absolute, brutal truth. Stripped of all human denial, Malachaias's mind aligns with the fabric of time itself, granting him terrifying glimpses of the future. Returning to ordinary high school life, he is left with a crushing burden: navigating a reality that feels entirely artificial, armed with the absolute truth of a looming tragedy he might not be able to stop.