<lora:training_2617621-20251210023505932:1> A skeletal, elderly man sits alone on the edge of a collapsing wooden dock, suspended over a vast wasteland where water once flowed. His sunken cheeks and hollow eyes speak of starvation and exhaustion. Dust cakes his deeply wrinkled face, and his long, tangled gray hair clings to his scalp with sweat and dirt. He wears ragged, patched clothing — an old, shredded coat and threadbare trousers — barely shielding him from the harsh elements. In his shaking hands, he clutches a rusty, brittle fishing rod, its line dangling helplessly into the void below. But there is no water. Only cracked earth and shifting dunes of wind-blown sand stretch endlessly beneath him, glowing under a surreal golden light. The dock groans under his weight, planks warped and rotting, some missing entirely. Around it, the dried lakebed is littered with forgotten debris — broken bottles, rusted barrels, twisted metal, sun-bleached bones, all half-swallowed by the desert. Behind him, the ruins of a once-great city rise like ghosts. Skyscrapers are broken spines, jagged silhouettes etched against a furious sky. Some buildings lean as if gasping their final breath, others collapsed entirely into rubble and twisted steel. Dust storms swirl in the distance, catching the light like fire. Overhead, storm clouds clash with rays of sunlight piercing through — beams of divine gold slicing across the gray, illuminating the scene in stark, cinematic contrasts. Shadows stretch long and ominous. The entire atmosphere is heavy with silence, grief, and memory. A place where time has stopped. A forgotten world, caught between decay and defiance.