S U R V I V A L
Ethan, a man whose name echoes strength, firmness, and endurance, has endured a lifetime of relentless hardship. At 18, worn yet unbroken, he dies—or so he believes. Instead, he is chosen by Estrade, a sentient, celestial planet, to serve a purpose beyond human understanding.
Estrade is awakening. Its core—Origin Energy—stirs after eons of stillness, initiating a slow, unstoppable unraveling of time, life, and natural order. An apocalypse is not a single event, but a process, a cosmic ordeal.
Ethan is given a singular fate: to witness this apocalypse. Not in body, not even as a ghost—but as a pure soul, formless and invisible, bound to Estrade itself. He has no voice. No influence. No companions. No legacy. Only awareness.
Drifting across millennia, Ethan becomes a silent observer as entire civilizations fall, evolve, or vanish. He watches the rise of alien intelligences, the collapse of stars, the horror and beauty of transformation. He sees the death of meaning and the birth of something new. But he cannot interfere. He is a witness only.
This is his trial.
As time unravels, Ethan begins to perceive patterns within chaos, consciousness within the void, and perhaps a reason why Estrade chose him—not as a hero, but as a mirror. Through absolute stillness and voiceless endurance, he begins to understand not just the apocalypse, but the sacred pain of survival without action.
