Escape of oblivion

The huddle is warm. The huddle is safe. The huddle is all there is. In a pitch-black underground world where the gods have stripped away hunger, humanity has forgotten how to think, build, or progress. Driven by a desperate, unexplainable cosmic rule forcing them to seek connection, hundreds of mindless people spend their endless lives tangled together in massive, silent carpets of flesh on the cold cave floor. They don't speak, they don't innovate, and they don't care—submerged in a soft, blissful mental fog, content to be human animals following the heavy, hypnotic pull of a divine Master's presence. But the peace of the caves is a flawless trap. While crawling blindly toward the center of the herd, a young native youth experiences a violent internal fracture. A cosmic glitch unplugs his soul from the collective hum, and the fog evaporates. He opens his eyes in the absolute dark, pulls his hands away from the dry porcelain skin of the strangers beside him, and realizes with sudden, suffocating horror what humanity has become. He grabs the shoulder of a shape he has slept next to for seasons and begs for a name, only to watch the man's blank face look right through him before dragging itself back into the mass of crawling bodies. The universe is aggressively erasing him, forcing the herd to forget his existence within a single blink. He is an invisible ghost standing over an asylum of cattle, shivering in the dry stone dust, completely alone inside his own skin. How would you like to prepare for the novel's next steps? Draft the blurb text exactly as it will appear on Royal Road Lock down the tags and content warnings for Chapter 1 Outline the first scene of Chapter 2 AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more The huddle is warm. The huddle is safe. The huddle is all there is. In a pitch-black cave world where the gods have stripped away hunger, humanity has devolved into mindless animals. Hundreds of people spend their endless lives tangled together in massive, silent carpets of flesh on the stone floor, completely brainwashed by the hypnotic aura of a divine Master. But during a mindless crawl toward the herd, a young native youth experiences a violent mental fracture. The blissful fog evaporates. He opens his eyes in the absolute dark, pulls away from the skin of the strangers beside him, and realizes with suffocating horror that everyone he knows is just cattle. Worse, a cosmic curse is actively deleting him. He begs the person beside him for a name, only to be forgotten within a single blink. He is a ghost standing over an asylum of human beasts, completely alone inside his own skin.