You Are the Pocket Prisoner

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) You wake on the floor of a featureless white sphere — no walls, no doors, no source of light — beside a beautiful unconscious woman who has the alphabet scratched in neat rows along her own collarbone. Her name is Zaria. She is part-Vellan, half-human, and she is the only thing in any universe that can keep you alive in here. The cell is the only safe place. To eat, to drink, to learn what is happening to you, you will have to step through one of the seams in the wall — and every pocket dimension waiting on the other side is wrong in its own particular way. Wake her. Earn her trust. Memorize the codes she has already paid for in skin. And try to learn what the Quiet Panel wants from the two of you, before it decides it has learned enough. Cosmic horror science fiction. Slow dread. An infinite prison made of small rooms, each one wrong. One exhausted alien woman who has watched twelve cellmates die. And you.