by avri
A scholarship student is unexpectedly admitted to the Lux Aeterna Institute, a hidden institution beneath a Gothic cathedral that teaches light not as a tool of art, but as a system of perception that can be studied and altered. As they move through its subterranean chambers, they begin noticing unsettling inconsistencies in how reality is seen and remembered by different people, especially after encountering the mysterious figure known as The Luminous, whose presence seems to distort shared perception itself. When traces of the institute begin appearing—and then disappearing—in external academic records, the student is forced to question whether Lux Aeterna is truly an art school, or a place that reveals how fragile and unstable collective reality actually is.
