Dr. Aris Thorne, a disgraced chronophysicist, lived a secluded life, the echoes of his past failures ringing louder than any ticking clock. Once a celebrated scientist, his career imploded after a catastrophic experiment at the Chronarium, a top-secret government facility dedicated to temporal research. He’d attempted to stabilize a temporal rift, but instead, he’d seemingly fractured the timeline, earning him exile and the moniker “The Time-Breaker.” Now, years later, whispers, like phantom ticks of a broken clock, reached him – tales of temporal anomalies, of moments frozen and repeated, of reality itself fraying at the edges. He dismissed them as the anxieties of a world grappling with the unknown, until a chilling message arrived: a distorted image of his old Chronarium access card, the words “They’re watching” scrawled in an unnervingly familiar hand. He knew he had to return to the Chronarium, a place he’d sworn never to see again, to confront the secrets he’d buried, secrets that now threatened to unravel the very fabric of existence.