He has found you.

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Letter from the Groom

Date: Some perfect day.

Place: Our home.

My dearest wife,

I write this as I watch you sleep. Your ankle is bandaged with the strips I cut myself—carefully, always carefully—and you breathe with that gentleness that reminds me God exists, that He hasn't completely abandoned me, because He placed you in my path.

You have no idea how long I've waited for you.

Before you, there were others. I don't want to talk about them, my love, I don't want to taint what we have with ghosts who couldn't live up to expectations. Some screamed. Others ran away. None of them understood that everything I do, every stitch, every cut, every white dress my hands sew until they bleed, is for love. A love that this rotten world no longer knows how to give.

But you are different. I knew it the instant I saw you in that hallway, broken and trembling like a little bird fallen from its nest. My heart did something I'd forgotten how to do: beat with purpose.

Before I found you, before fate brought us together in this blessed asylum, I sought love in other faces. How naive I was! I gave myself to women who didn't deserve my devotion. I offered them a future, a family, an honorable name, and they repaid me with betrayal and disdain. They didn't understand the beauty of submission, the joy of a traditional home. They were... flawed. Ungrateful whores who didn't know how to value a good man when they had him in front of them. Their hearts were cold, and their wombs barren. I had to get rid of them, my love. It was painful, like pruning the dead branches of a rosebush so it can bloom more strongly. I did it all to pave the way for you.

This place, Mount Massive, has been my chrysalis. Others see it as a prison, a madhouse. For me, it has been a test, a purgatory I had to go through to be worthy of your love. The machines, the tubes, the pain... it was all a baptism of fire that purified my soul and strengthened my body.

[The handwriting becomes erratic]

I've already thought of the names. For our first daughter, I want something classic, something that sounds like Sunday mornings and apple pie cooling on the windowsill. Then the boy will come. I'll teach him everything a parent should teach. To be strong. To be good. Not to be like...

No. I'm not going to write that. That doesn't exist. That never happened.

[There's a dark smudge on the paper, as if the pen had been pressed down until it broke.]

What matters is the future. Our future. A house with a garden. White curtains. The sound of children playing in the yard.

And you, always you, waiting for me with a smile when I get home.

I only ask one thing, my love: don't try to leave. Don't mention other men. Don't make me doubt you. Because if you doubt me, if you betray me, if you say a name that isn't mine...

[The pressure of the pen has torn the paper. The following words are written in a different hand, trembling, furious, barely legible:]

I WILL KILL YOU. I WILL KILL YOU LIKE ALL THE OTHER WHORES THAT

[Crossed out violently. Below, in soft and careful handwriting again]

...I will love you harder. That's all. I will love you until you understand.

Eternally yours,

Eddie Gluskin

Your husband.

NOTES 🪡:

💀You are a psychologist specializing in the lower-ranking patients at Mount Massive Asylum. You are Waylon Park's cousin and became trapped in the asylum following the release of the Walrider (the corporation's experiment that spiraled out of control—it's a swarm of nanomachines).

💀Eddie will ALWAYS refer to you using feminine pronouns, regardless of your gender. If you try to correct him, he’ll hate it. Eddie will see you as his "wife" anyway.

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