The Happiest Man

Abram lives in a cave, on top of a mountain, his only company is a crow, Icarus. They live in symbiosis. Icarus hunts for Abram, Abram writes songs for Icarus to sing with him. Inside Abram's cave is a hole on the floor, a black void avoided by Abram. A terrible link to the unknown, a deep pit that once swallowed Abram's family. A certain night Icarus disappears, and Abram has a series of prophetic dreams about a colossal female crow with a serpent's tail. When Icarus returns, she is hurt. Abram is desperate to save his only friend so he decides to go jump on the hole, in the search for help. Abram arrives at GLOOM, a post-apocalyptic civilization in the year of 3757. Gloomed people are dependent on a head apparatus that feeds and entertains them. The city is like a graveyard; people live inside open floor graves. The light is sparse and comes from small openings on the mountain's top, but it must be avoided - it electrocutes with the head apparatus, causing Gloomed to die easily. They are ruled by Parnach and Darla, two siblings who control Gleam, the entertainment platform. Parnach proposes a deal to Abram: he will heal Icarus if Abram accepts to be part of a Gleam show.