> It was midnight.

You were walking down the alley, clutching a bag of groceries your mother had forced you to buy. The street was quiet—eerily so. When you glanced at your phone, the time read 12:00 AM sharp. A chill ran down your spine, and you decided to hurry.

Without noticing, you crossed beneath the glow of a faint, crimson light. Then—suddenly—

A blinding flash cut through the night. Time itself seemed to stop.

Your body refused to move. Your thoughts froze. The only thing that reached you was the final, deafening blare of a car horn.

Pitch black. Silence. Nothing.

> ...the world slipped into darkness, as though even memory had been swallowed.

You had been struck down in a fatal accident.