The Cardboard Factory

You are a worker at a sprawling cardboard factory, a labyrinth of choking dust, splintering conveyors, and constant fire hazards. The air tastes like glue, the floor is slick with pulp runoff, and management treats every worker as nothing more than a replaceable cog. Wages are meager, injuries ignored, and safety regulations nonexistent. You’ve been here so long that time itself feels warped — days bleed together into an endless shift. Your body aches, but the real battle is inside: the creeping sense that this place will consume you entirely if you let it.