Sweetest Static

Vessel 09: The Void Between Us

Episode 1: The Sound of Silence

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Elian lives in a world where human desires manifest as colored mists, a gift that has made him a target and a pariah. But on the drifting derelict of the ship, he encounters something that shouldn't exist: Hana, a "Vessel" who appears as a terrifying, absolute void. She has no color, no mist, and no heartbeat. She is the literal Sound of Silence. As a mysterious Collector closes in to harvest the rare Indigo mist of devotion that Elian carries, Elian realizes that his survival depends on the very thing that haunts him. To fight a war against systemic corruption and the ghosts in the static, he must decide if he is willing to pour his soul into the emptiness of a woman who might just consume him whole.