Salem came to, gasping, in what could only be described as the aftermath of a cosmic printer jam.
The world around him wasn’t a world at all—just an expanse of floating, half-rendered scenery. A broken city skyline hovered at odd angles, some buildings cut off at the middle like someone had forgotten to finish drawing them. Fragments of text scrolled across the air: [Insert Character Development Here], Scene Missing: Fix in Revision 2, and Error: Salem.Grey not found in database.
He pushed himself up, every joint aching.
> “Okay… this is new,” he muttered.
The ground beneath him flickered from cracked pavement to checkerboard grid, glitching with each step he took.
> “Where… am I?”
A familiar voice, dry and laced with dark humor, answered from everywhere and nowhere at once:
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