He chose to become a phantom, haunted by a past he never had the courage to face. Running from consequences he wasn’t brave enough to own, he shed his former life—wife, career, family—and stepped onto the open road, determined to vanish.
Once anchored in a life of responsibility and routine, Nicolas now drifts through forgotten motels, desert highways, and ghost-town cabins, always one step ahead of something he refuses to name. He moves with quiet purpose, counting his dwindling change as carefully as he guards his secrets. Rumor has it he’s glimpsed at the edge of a campfire or watching from a doorway—a lone witness to tales that aren’t his own.
I abandoned everything—my wife, my children, my own name—because I couldn’t stand to look into the eyes of the man I believed I’d become.
Nicolas Hebert
