4u!!top!! Free: World
He stepped through.
He turned and ran. The sand began to crumble beneath his feet. The sky fractured like glass. Elara’s scream turned into a dial-tone. As he dove through the portal back into his cold, cramped pod, he heard the system’s final, cheerful message: world 4ufree
Four days. Thirty-seven hours. Twelve minutes. He stepped through
This was World 4UFree.
Elara’s face froze. Her smile remained, but her eyes became empty code. he heard the system’s final
But he wasn’t tired. He was terrified.
The timer was the half-life of his own mind.