Bee

The Void He Carries

The backstage corridor of the Meridian Arena was never supposed to be empty — but the crowd's roar is muffled up above, and down here it is just you, a flickering light, and the man leaning against the wall who should not be this still. Dorian Voss, twenty-years-old forever, lead vocalist of the most famous rock band alive, is staring at you with an expression that does not belong on a pop idol's face — it belongs on something much, much older. He has not blinked in forty-seven seconds, and you are starting to count.