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NECESSARY DELUSIONS Reality is not a given. It is a flavor profile. In the immense silence of the earth, a man wakes to find that the end of life is not an ending, but a systematic and terrifying form of sharing. Beneath the soil, a chorus of wet mouths teaches the recently deceased that the soul is not a ghost, but the final, clingy attachment of thought to flesh-and it must be consumed to be understood. In the cold expanse of the deep void, a mind that has lived a thousand lifetimes seeks the only luxury left to a god: the ability to forget. Drifting through a digital prison of his own making, a traveler trades infinite perfection for the jagged, necessary delusion of human struggle, desperate to feel the weight of a life that might actually end. And in the crumbling industrial district of Chicago, three friends arrive at a dinner reservation that does not exist on any map. At N.Igma, the menu is not composed of food, but of the diner's own internal states. Here, regret is a course served on a stone, ambition is a clockwork engine that demands blood, and the check is calculated not in currency, but in the surrender of personal sovereignty. From the claustrophobia of the grave to the infinite loneliness of the stars, and finally to a table set with velvet and violence, Necessary Delusions explores the terrifying hunger that connects us all. It is a story about the lies we tell ourselves to survive the silence, and the price we pay when the universe finally decides to taste us back. Bring your appetite. But remember: you are what you eat, and sometimes, you are just what you do.

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