Brief Summary Of Jacob's Tattoo

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An unconscious young man sat at the back alley of a bakery. He looks like he is in his twenties, like an ordinary person. He has short, wavy blond hair, a round face with olive skin. He is also average height and stockily built with broad shoulders. This young man was hunched over, with his back facing the wall and legs stretched out. Nothing was wrong with this young man, he was like an ordinary person, but one thing that was strange and mysterious, was his tattoo. It was a tattoo of an eye, in the pupil of the eye, was a clock, and it was tattooed on the right side of his forearm. You may be wondering why he has such a weird tattoo, but no one knows…only himself… Jacob saw himself standing in pitch darkness. In the background, there is

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