Nial Phillip Triffett

July 28, 2018 AD

Just a Chat

Nial Triffett kisses Jenny goodbye that morning. Says he'll be back in a couple hours—just getting details on a new job. She has no idea it's the last time she'll see him. He tells himself the same lie: it's just a consultation. The hundred thousand in cash? Suspicious but explainable. The isolated location? A bit odd. Luke's nervous energy? Probably nothing. It's just a chat. He repeats it like a mantra as he drives into the hills, as he follows Luke toward the cottage door. Sometimes "just a chat" is the last thing you'll ever say.

July 28, 2018 AD

Just a Chat

As Nial Triffett wrestles with the mounting weight of debt and the quiet erosion of his confidence, he hides the truth from Jenny and Sammy behind a well-practised smile. When a mysterious offer promises salvation, Nial convinces himself he’s only going to hear the details — but every kilometre he drives towards that meeting takes him further from the man he used to be.

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July 28, 2018 AD

The Call Nial Couldn't Ignore

July 28, 2018. Pre-dawn. Nial Triffett's phone rings in the bathroom. Luke Smith calling with an urgent job offer—one hundred thousand dollars in cash, materials on top, work needed in days. Nial's business is drowning. His family is suffering. Every instinct screams danger. But when you're desperate, even anchors look like lifelines. One phone call. One impossible decision. Everything changes.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Cottage

Following a set of coordinates into the misted hills, Nial Triffett arrives at an old property that feels both familiar and wrong. As he meets Luke Smith — a man he thought he knew — Nial’s instincts scream for him to leave, but the promise of salvation keeps him walking toward the cottage… and whatever waits inside.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Fencer of Bixbus

Still reeling from his impossible arrival, Nial is forced to confront the truth: the Portal won’t let him leave, but others can. As Luke vanishes back to Earth, Nial meets Paul and learns of Bixbus — a settlement clinging to survival in this strange new world. When Paul suggests that Nial’s fencing skills might finally mean something here, the irony cuts deeper than he’ll admit.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Hallway

Led deeper into the silent cottage, Nial Triffett follows Luke toward what he believes are the plans for a lucrative fencing job. But when a strange, shifting artwork catches his eye, fascination turns to horror — and one moment of distraction shatters everything he understands about the world.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Offer

Nial Triffett’s morning begins in the quiet fog of routine — until a familiar name appears on his phone, offering a job that seems too good to be real. As curiosity wrestles with caution, Nial finds himself stepping beyond the safety of reason and into something far less certain.

July 28, 2018 AD

The Sky Was All Wrong

Flung into a vast red landscape beneath an alien blue sky, Nial fights to understand what’s real and what’s been taken from him. When a stranger greets him by name and a familiar shape pushes through the impossible light, Nial begins to grasp that there’s no way back — only deeper in.

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Kain Thomas Jeffries Nial Phillip Triffett

July 28, 2018 AD

Two Sides of the Threshold

The portal explodes into colour and Kain reaches for home — only to be knocked flat by Luke's newest recruit. A fence builder, taken for his useful skills. On the other side of the collision, a man named Nial fights to understand why the sky is wrong, why his ute just emerged through impossible light, and why a stranger is welcoming him to a place he never asked to find.

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