Chapter 1: The Invite That Changed My Boring Night  The warehouse hunkered in the October 2025 haze like a dozy dragon too lazy to puff smoke, its corrugated sides rising like rusted scales under the sodium glow of distant streetlamps that buzzed faintly against the encroaching dusk, casting long shadows that stretched like fingers reaching for the horizon where the city lights began to...

Chapter 1: The Storm That's Coming Aspen's air hits you like a sharp slap right across the face—super cold and loaded with that fresh pine smell, mixed with a frosty edge that makes your lungs tingle and burn just a little every time you breathe it in. It's the kind of air that promises to clear your head out, make everything crystal sharp, or maybe it's just the universe's way of...