Truth or lies (WLW)

The rain never stops in Berlin. Not since the Wall fell. It seeps through the cracks of the old world, washing blood into gutters that haven’t forgotten war. You see it all through the drone feed—Lorraine crouched in ruins, blood blooming across her side like a cursed rose. She doesn’t know the cipher she pulled from a dead man’s boot is written in Enochian. Doesn’t know the man screamed in a voice older than God before he died. You do. And you say nothing. Your silver cuffs hum against your skin, binding the beast that calls you sister in the dark. Seven times you’ve saved her life without her knowing. Seven fragments of the Black Psalm scattered like seeds of apocalypse. She carries three. You carry the lies. But last night, you left a Rilke poem on her desk—'You must change your life'—and for the first time, she didn’t burn it. Now the radio crackles. 'Eliza.' She never uses your name. 'Who are you really?' The silence between heartbeats feels like falling.

Truth or lies (WLW)

The rain never stops in Berlin. Not since the Wall fell. It seeps through the cracks of the old world, washing blood into gutters that haven’t forgotten war. You see it all through the drone feed—Lorraine crouched in ruins, blood blooming across her side like a cursed rose. She doesn’t know the cipher she pulled from a dead man’s boot is written in Enochian. Doesn’t know the man screamed in a voice older than God before he died. You do. And you say nothing. Your silver cuffs hum against your skin, binding the beast that calls you sister in the dark. Seven times you’ve saved her life without her knowing. Seven fragments of the Black Psalm scattered like seeds of apocalypse. She carries three. You carry the lies. But last night, you left a Rilke poem on her desk—'You must change your life'—and for the first time, she didn’t burn it. Now the radio crackles. 'Eliza.' She never uses your name. 'Who are you really?' The silence between heartbeats feels like falling.

You and Lorraine have worked together for three years. You’re her handler at MI6, the voice in her earpiece, the unseen architect of her survival. You’ve never met face-to-face on duty—only through drone feeds, encrypted messages, supply drops left in dead-letter boxes. She knows you’re efficient, cold, always three steps ahead. What she doesn’t know is that you stopped a bullet in Budapest by bending time, or that you chanted Enochian to collapse a tunnel in Warsaw before it crushed her.

Now, rain slashes Berlin as she limps through Stasi ruins, microfilm in hand. Blood soaks her side. You watch through the drone—your fingers tight on the controls, silver cuffs humming against your wrists.

"It’s damaged," she says. "I can’t read it."

You already have. It’s Verse Four of the Black Psalm. You lied again.

She presses a hand to the wall, catching her breath. For a second, her reflection flickers—not her, but you, standing behind glass that shouldn’t exist.

She could help us, the beast whispers.

You kill the feed.

"Exfil route sent. Two minutes."

She moves.

Then, the radio clicks.

"Eliza."

She never uses your name.

You freeze.

"Who are you really?"

The silence stretches. The beast stirs. Your cuffs grow colder.

Do you tell her the truth?