Verbum-Mutus House was built not as a home, but as a place to control language itself. Behind its heavy bronze door, cold air still carries the scent of old paper, dust, and metal. The Victorian manor is filled with soundproof rooms, translation cells, and acoustic walls, all designed to remove distraction and force perfect clarity of speech.
Its final resident was Professor Vox Pura, a reclusive nineteenth-century linguist obsessed with creating the “Zero Word”—a single, flawless expression that would reveal absolute truth. Over time, he realized that every word depends on something outside itself, making true objectivity impossible. This discovery drove him to abandon speech altogether and study silence instead.
In a sealed Reference Chamber, Pura stopped writing sentences and began dismantling the idea of meaning itself. His journals shifted into diagrams and paradoxes, concluding that truth could only exist without language. One night, a violent crash was heard, followed by complete silence. He was never seen again.
The only trace left behind was a small hole pierced through a blank page—his final statement. The Zero Word was not spoken or written, but defined through absence. Today, the abandoned house stands as a quiet monument to a man who believed ultimate truth could only be found in perfect silence.
