(Mateo’s perspective)
A tear opens in the sky above the city. Someone falls through it and should be dead on impact.
He isn’t.
Mateo finds him first. A short blond stranger with pale green eyes and torn skin hiding metal, moving tech, things no body should have.
Mateo helps him disappear.
It doesn’t take long before the rest of the world comes looking too. Governments, labs, soldiers. Everyone wants the man from the sky and the technology living inside him. What Mateo learns is enough to scare him: reality runs deeper than anyone thinks, death isn’t the end, and most people never even notice when they’ve crossed over.
The stranger was built to survive. He was never built to be held.
On the run, Mateo becomes the one steady thing in his life. Not a scientist, not a hero, just someone who stays. But staying comes at a cost, and the closer they get, the harder it is to ignore: holding on to the stranger might mean cutting the last thread connecting him to where he came from.
A love story about holding on when everything is telling you to let go.
