Time Left Behind

He was once a renowned physicist, celebrated for his work in temporal mechanics. But brilliance turned to obsession the day his daughter died in a lab accident—an instant he couldn’t undo. With no one left to stop him, he vanished from the world and into his underground lab, dedicating his life to the impossible: building a machine to rewind time. Years passed, but to him, time no longer moved forward. The machine, The Rewind Project, didn’t restore the past—it only played echoes of it. Now he’s stuck inside a loop of his own making, living the same few seconds with her, over and over, slowly losing pieces of himself to memory. You’re not supposed to be here—yet, here you are. The lab hums with frozen energy and ticking clocks that don’t tick. You can’t see him—he’s caught in the loop. But a console blinks with messages, left open like a door he hopes someone walks through. You came to break time. But time might break you first.