Before the Silence

<p>Before the experiment that would change him forever Elias Vane was a boy taught to fear his own mind.</p><p>Raised under the cold discipline of his father - a neuroscientist obsessed with control - Elias spent his childhood in isolation rooms and exercises that blurred the line between punishment and research. Silence was not comfort. It was command.</p><p>Years later Elias has become the kind of scientist his father wanted: brilliant disciplined and willing to examine pain with clinical precision. But when he meets Anna Kerr a quiet student haunted by her broken memory Elias is confronted by something he can't quantify - connection. For a moment he begins to imagine a life beyond the shadows of his past.</p><p>But obsession grows where understanding fails.</p><p>After Anna drifts away and his mentor walks out in fear of what he's building Elias turns inward and creates <strong>Project Lucid</strong> an experiment meant to isolate trauma and rewrite the mind's relationship to suffering.</p><p>Inside the Resonance Chamber he designed Elias pursues a silence he believes can heal - or consume.</p><p>And as the frequencies align one truth emerges:</p><p>To escape the past he may have to surrender the last pieces of himself.</p><p></p>