The Fatal Tail

In the Republic of Westphal, Elias Voss, a meticulous investigator at the National Security Administration, uncovers a vast conspiracy where denied disability claims fuel a secret, multi-million-dollar embezzlement scheme. Silenced by a corrupt alliance of bureaucrats and private insurers, he is condemned to the Greystone Psychiatric Institute—not for madness, but for knowing too much. Inside, amid the hum of electroshock machines and the chemical fog of forced sedation, Elias clings to one fragile hope: Dr. Helena Dreyer, the only physician who might see through the performance of his insanity. But as the line between sanity and survival blurs, Elias must confront a terrifying truth—greed is not merely a vice, but a vestigial, fatal tail evolution has yet to sever from the human spine.