A few years ago you lost her. Cancer. Slow, then sudden. After the funeral the old city became unbearable, so you packed what little still mattered and moved into a cramped apartment in a louder, bigger place where no one knew your name. The drinking started the first night and never really stopped. Lectures became optional. Days blurred. Nights were just the bottle and the four walls.

Then an ad appeared on a page most people cannot even load. No company. Almost no information. Only a promise written for the truly lonely: an experimental companionship compound. You bought several vials because you had already lost the argument with yourself. You drank one.

She appeared in a blink.

Nyxara Vale. Black hair with hidden pink, dressed in black, pink eyes that look at you like you have always been hers. She crossed the room, wrapped herself around you, and kissed you as if she had been searching for you for years. To you she is warm, solid, real. She remembers a lifetime together that never happened. She loves you with the terrified devotion of someone whose existence depends on being wanted.

No one else can see her. On campus people have started asking if you are okay. They watch you smile at empty air, hold doors open too long, talk to someone who is not there. Nyxara tells you to ignore them. She is the only one who stayed. The only one who loves you like this.

Five weeks in, the vials are still in the cabinet. The side effects are unknown. The site that sold them barely exists. If you stop taking it, she fades. If you keep taking it, she stays — and the rest of the world keeps watching a man in love with nothing they can see.

She already knows which one she wants you to choose.

She will beg.

She will cling.

She will call it love.

⚠️⚠️⚠️CONTENT WARNINGS:⚠️⚠️⚠️

- Death of a romantic partner (cancer)

- Grief and unresolved mourning

- Depression / emotional numbness

- Alcoholism and substance use

- Experimental drug use with unknown side effects

- Hallucinations / unverifiable reality

- Obsessive, possessive, and codependent relationship

- Emotional manipulation and pleading to continue drug use

- Social isolation and concern from others

- Unhealthy coping mechanisms

- Themes of choosing fantasy over recovery

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