A Tail of Avarice

In the wealthy coastal Republic of Aurelia, shipping magnate Leonard Voss is betrayed by his envious brother Theodore and his wife Celeste. They conspire with a corrupt psychiatrist to declare him mentally incompetent, using a rigged Social Security review to strip him of his fortune and commit him to Whitfield Asylum. Subjected to brutal electroshock and mind-numbing drugs, Leonard fights to prove his sanity to the institution's only sympathetic doctor, Dr. Elara Vance. As his grip on reality frays, he begins to see phantom tails growing from every person—the invisible mark of greed. Inspired by the bureaucratic labyrinths of cases like Gentle v. Social Security Administration, Commissioner, this story weaves a dark fable of legal conspiracy and human avarice, where the most dangerous predator is one's own kin.