The system doesn't break. It adjusts. And if you don't fit, it doesn't punish you. It tunes you.

In the wake of De-Moral-ized, where Eli glimpsed a world outside emotional control, Mis-Align-ment shifts focus to Grant, a Systems Resonance Officer whose loyalty isn't performative-it's sincere.

Grant believes in the Framework. He's fluent in its rhythms, committed to its order, and trained to calibrate those who drift. To him, dissonance is a symptom to resolve, not a signal to follow.

But when subtle anomalies begin surfacing-phrases uncorrected, murals unlogged, memories not quite erased-Grant doesn't rebel.

He hesitates.

And in a world governed by emotional sync, hesitation is Misalignment.

As his breath pattern shifts and his trust in the system's silence begins to fray, Grant is drawn toward a series of buried signals and untraceable names. What he uncovers isn't an uprising. It's a residue-evidence of something or someone the system once needed and now refuses to name.

Mis-Align-ment isn't about the collapse of order. It's about the subtle unraveling of belief. It explores a question more dangerous than dissent: What if the system isn't wrong, but incomplete?

This second installment in the Re-Design-ed series deepens the world introduced through Eli's eyes, but shifts perspective to the inside-from compliance, not defiance. With quiet urgency and ambient unease, it traces the moment where agreement falters, not from anger, but from doubt.

To fall out of sync is not to reject the song.
Sometimes it means you're starting to hear the echo beneath it.