Episode 1 - Arrivals ✨

stood by the sliding glass doors, his hands shoved deep into his coat pockets. He wasn't waiting for a person, but for a feeling. He had spent ten years away, and he expected the city to look different, or perhaps for himself to feel heavier. Instead, he just felt thin, like a character sketched in pencil against a background painted in oil.

Across the barrier, a young woman burst through the doors, dropping her bags to wrap her arms around an elderly man. They didn't say anything; the arrival was the conversation. Further down, a businessman checked his watch, already looking past the exit toward his next meeting, his arrival merely a logistical hurdle. Episode 1 - Arrivals

Under the flicker of the Arrivals board, the world was reduced to a mechanical rhythm of names and cities. Every few seconds, the board would shiver—a frantic clattering of plastic tiles—rearranging itself to announce a new batch of souls. London. Tokyo. New York. stood by the sliding glass doors, his hands