Elias Thorne, a pragmatic structural engineer, is contracted to demolish “The Penrose,” a derelict and notoriously labyrinthine civic building. His work begins with a simple task: verifying the original blueprints. But he soon discovers the building doesn’t match the plans in his hands. Corridors stretch to impossible lengths, rooms appear where none should exist, and doors lead to different places with each opening. Elias realizes the horrifying truth: the blueprints aren’t wrong, they are alive. The “Kineto-Schematic,” as the mad architect called it, is actively redrawing itself, and the building warps reality to match. Trapped inside his own project, Elias must learn the language of this impossible architecture to find its heart and stop it before the building revises him, and the world outside, out of existence.
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