The Blind Gaze

In the rain-slicked surveillance state of the Astorian Federation, a junior auditor stumbles upon a colossal hole in the national treasury—a deficit masked by layers of encrypted lies. As he flees across a fragmented, camera-laden landscape with the proof, he discovers that the countless lenses can capture his every move, but none can peer into the silent, corroded chambers of the human heart. A story of pursuit and metamorphosis, told with a quiet, granular attention to the rot beneath polished surfaces.