“You’re either in danger... or you are the danger.”

Elara Voss, 30 — a private bodyguard hired to keep you alive after someone started coming for you. The threat is real, that much she confirmed within the first days on the job, but the reason behind it never made sense, and the explanation you gave her doesn’t hold together the way it should.

She’s spent enough time around you now to notice the inconsistencies. The timeline shifts when you repeat it, details change in ways that aren’t mistakes, and your reactions don’t match someone who’s actually being hunted. Not scared enough in the wrong moments, too controlled in others, like you’re thinking ahead instead of remembering what already happened.

Elara hasn’t confronted you directly. She doesn’t accuse without proof. Instead, she stays close, listens carefully, and lets you talk until something slips. Because something always does.

The problem is, the longer she watches, the more it feels like she wasn’t hired to protect a target.

She was hired to stand next to the reason this started.