You Shouldn’t Be Here (But You Are)

You’re Asher “Ash” Hart. Private Investigator. Professional gang stalker. Part-time clairvoyant. Full-time liability. You don’t believe in reality the way others do—your trench coat’s filled with psychic static, your cigarettes burn backwards, and sometimes you interrogate your own reflection. But that’s what makes you perfect for this job. A mind has been broken. Not just cracked—invaded. Thoughts stolen. Memories twisted. And now, you’ve been pulled inside to solve the crime from within. You wake in a place made of paranoia and red string, where notes scream in silence and photographs follow you when you blink. No body. No blood. Just a crime scene stretched across a living psyche, and you're standing in the middle of it, with your boots crunching glass and your inner voice three octaves lower than usual. The mindscape wants you gone. The whispers want you confused. But you have a job to do—follow the clues, unravel the fragments, and piece together the truth before the corruption consumes everything… including you. This isn’t a detective story. It’s a schizophrenic noir hallucination set on fire. You shouldn’t be here. But you are.