ATERNA

ATERNA Reality is a premium feature. In a near-future city where perception is subscription-based, she uses her ATERNA visor to see her daughter — preserved as a living memory inside the system. Moments cost credits. When her balance hits zero, the world glitches and her daughter disappears. Desperate, she notices a stranger collapse nearby — his visor still active. She puts it on. The city instantly transforms. Neon skyscrapers rot into a burning apocalypse. The sky splits. Humanity is gone. She tries to remove it. It won’t detach. She’s locked inside the dead man’s final memory — a vision of the world’s collapse. Reality flickers between timelines as something hunts her in both. If the stream completes, the visor will overwrite her mind. She won’t just witness the apocalypse. She’ll become part of it.