EPISODE 6: THE BROKEN WATCHER ## PART ONE: THE DISTURBANCE ### CHAPTER 1: THE SCREAMING The screaming started without warning. Marcus and Sarah were guiding a new soul—a middle-aged man who'd driven his car off a bridge—when the sound began. It came from everywhere and nowhere, a howl of anguish that reverberated through the Corridor's infinite length. "What is that?" Sarah asked, her newly ancient eyes wide with alarm. "I don't know." Marcus had been a Watcher for eons, and he'd never heard anything like this. The Corridor was meant to be quiet, solemn, a place of reflection. Not... this. The screaming intensified, and the fluorescent lights began to flicker. The soul they were guiding collapsed, overwhelmed by the psychic assault. Even Marcus felt it pressing against him—a weight of grief so profound it threatened to crush everything in its path. "It's coming from the center," Sarah said. "From the Unfinished." They ran. --- ### CHAPTER 2: THE SOURCE The crowd of Unfinished had scattered. Where hundreds of frozen souls had gathered, now there was only chaos. They fled in all directions, their millennial stillness shattered by whatever was happening at the epicenter of the disturbance. And at the center stood a Watcher. Marcus recognized him—Ezra, one of the oldest guides in the Corridor. He'd been here since before...