in the middle of an ongoing war, y/n and an enemy soldier begin secretly meeting in a ruined church that sits between their two sides. what starts as tense, cautious exchanges of supplies and information slowly turns into something neither of them were meant to have: trust. as the war outside grows more violent and suspicion rises within both armies, their hidden meetings become more dangerous, forcing them to decide whether survival matters more than the fragile connection they’ve built in the only place that feels like peace.
y/n blake and her brother finney are trying to survive years after escaping the grabber, but neither of them ever truly recovered. both of them live with severe ptsd, nightmares, and constant fear that what happened in the basement never actually ended. when strange markings appear on finney’s wrist and an old phone begins ringing in their house again, the siblings are forced back into a shared trauma they thought they had escaped. as the calls return and the past bleeds into the present, they realize something from that night may have followed them home, and it’s feeding on everything they never healed from.
a court-ordered ptsd support group brings together survivors who believe they experienced unrelated traumatic events. as therapy sessions continue, the members begin to notice disturbing overlaps in their fragmented memories—shared imagery, identical details, and impossible coincidences that suggest their pasts may be connected. under the guidance of a clinical, unchanging therapist, they are pushed deeper into recall-based exercises that feel less like treatment and more like control. slowly, they realize their “therapy” may be part of something far more orchestrated—reminiscent of the infamous killer Jigsaw’s psychological games—where survival, memory, and recovery are twisted into the same test, forcing them to reconstruct a truth they were never meant to remember.
at a school where every student is assigned a guaranteed future based on a single evaluation, nothing is supposed to go wrong. careers are decided, identities are shaped, and no one leaves without a label. but when y/n takes the test, the system glitches and assigns her something impossible: UNKNOWN. suddenly, she becomes an anomaly in a place built on certainty. as the academy begins watching her more closely, she starts uncovering cracks in the system that was never meant to fail.
after growing up in a broken home, y/n only ever had one person she could truly rely on: her older brother, Lake. he’s protective to a fault, always watching over her life like it’s his responsibility to keep the world from ruining her too. while everyone else sees him as cold and intimidating, y/n knows the version of him that stays up waiting for her to come home and notices when she’s hurting before she says a word. but the older she gets, the more his constant need to protect her begins to clash with her desire for independence. no matter how much they argue, one thing never changes — if she calls for him, he’ll always come.