by Jordan Cummings
Tobi’s life ends with a message he should’ve answered… and begins again with two glowing orbs in a void that shouldn’t exist. When he chooses the blue orb, he wakes up in his room—alive, aware, and marked with a pulsing insignia that shouldn’t be possible. At first, the change is small: a faint HUD in his vision, a strange warmth in his palm, a sense that the world is slightly… off. Then the anomalies start. Reality flickers. People freeze mid‑motion. Shadows stretch too far. And Ben—his quiet classmate he failed once already—becomes the center of a rising “pulse” only Tobi can see. When a monster erupts from the floor of a grocery store and a mother-shaped thing stalks Ben’s house, Tobi realizes the truth: He didn’t just get a second chance. He got pulled into a branching reality—one that reacts, adapts, and hunts. The blue orb gave him abilities. The world gave him consequences. And something inside the anomalies wants Ben… badly. To save him, Tobi must navigate a shifting house, hostile entities, and a system that refuses to explain itself—while the “Ben Pulse” climbs toward a threshold he might not survive. This time, Tobi won’t walk away. Even if the world breaks around him.
