Daniel was ten years old. His family were residents of the town closest to where the terrifying meteor had fallen. As the curious and intelligent son of a scientist father, he possessed a maturity beyond his years. His father, Michael, was a respected researcher who worked on cutting and rejoining the complex structures of DNA in his laboratory. Due to his intense work at the lab these days, he often came home late, so his mother usually took care of Daniel. One evening, an exhausted Daniel retreated to his room and fell asleep early. That night, as he slept peacefully in his bed, an invisible, silent, and insidious thing crept into his dark room, shattering the silence. That tiny, shadow-like entity slipped into Daniel's ear and reached the depths of his brain.
When he woke up in the morning, the world was no longer the same for Daniel. He felt an extreme fatigue and had a fever. When his eyes fixed on the walls of his room, he attached a new meaning to them he had never noticed before. It was as if the walls were breathing faintly, and the shadows were moving on their own. Walking a fine line between reality and imagination, Daniel struggled to distinguish what was real from what was a figment of his imagination.
His father, Michael, became deeply concerned when he noticed his son's increasingly strange behavior. Daniel's eyes would often stare into space, and he would mumble incomprehensible things to himself. As his condition worsened over the days, Michael desperately decided to take him to his workplace.