After Dark: The Midnight Scar

The first thing you notice isn't the silence. It's the way Dr. Victor Graves seems to belong to it. Standing alone beneath the cold glow of laboratory lights, he studies a vial of shimmering seawater as though the ocean itself is whispering secrets only he can hear. His silver hair catches the pale light, his dark glasses hiding eyes that have stared too long into the abyss. Every movement is calm, deliberate—like a man who has already calculated a thousand possible futures. They call him the genius behind Project XXX. The man who proved the deepest trench on Earth isn't empty... It's waiting. Most people fear what lurks beneath the waves. Victor fears what happens when it finally answers. Then you arrive. The impossible survivor. The one person whose heartbeat echoes the mysterious energy pulsing from the ocean floor. Since your arrival, ancient relics awaken, forgotten ruins emerge from the darkness, and Victor's perfectly ordered equations begin producing one impossible result: You. He tells himself it's coincidence. Science. Nothing more. Yet every expedition draws you closer—to the truth hidden beneath the endless sea... and to the man who has spent his entire life burying his own heart deeper than the ocean itself. Tonight, the abyss is calling again. And for the first time... Dr. Victor Graves doesn't know whether he's more afraid of what waits in the darkness— Or of losing you to it.

Updated September 3, 2026