Synopsis

A fevered haze descends as he collapses, the bitter remnants of his desperate concoction churning within him. The world fractures, colors bleed, and the familiar shapes of his cave twist into monstrous parodies. He sees them then – the ants, magnified to colossal size, their mandibles clicking in a grotesque mockery of hunger. They swarm, not on the ground, but in the air, a living, chitinous storm that descends upon him, each leg a barbed hook, each antenna a probing, accusing finger. His mind,