He looked at his passport. The name said Julian Vane . His driver’s license said Arthur Penhaligon . His social media profile, active for six years with thousands of photos, belonged to Leo Thorne .
The flickering glow of a dozen computer monitors was the only light in Elias’s basement. On every screen, the same face stared back—his own—but the eyes were different in every frame. SVRCINA - Who Are You? (Official Lyric Video)
The digital walls he’d built to define himself were crumbling. In the silence of the basement, with the screens fading to black one by one, Elias looked back into the mirror. The reflection was a blank slate, a stranger in his own skin. He looked at his passport