Edgar returns from Burning Man carrying the afterglow of revelation—radical openness, dream-logic, a world rewritten in color. But without the right container, vision slips into volatility. A scuffle, an arrest, and suddenly he’s thrown into the sterile grip of the psychiatric ward. Here we meet the psychiatrist—our villain, our cipher, the one who holds the keys to Edgar’s fate. This chapter begins the duel between ecstatic freedom and institutional control… and it ends on the edge of revelatio