The Last Light of Aetheris
The sky burned with a sickly hue, a bruise of violet and ash that smothered the stars. Kaela stood at the edge of the village, her boots sinking into the damp earth as she watched the final ember of Aetheris…
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The Static Bloom
## The Static Bloom The grit tasted like burnt cinnamon and regret. Elara spat, the phosphorescent dust clinging to her tongue. Below, the pipeline pulsed with a sickly amber glow. A vein throbbing under skin of black silicate. She adjusted…
The Dust Collector’s Daughter
## The Dust Collector’s Daughter The hum vibrated through Eia’s bones. A low, constant thrum from the Nexus Harmone enclosure, a sound she’d known since infancy. She traced a finger along the polished obsidian wall, cool against her skin. Numbers…
The Bloomlands
## Echo Bloom The wind tasted of rust and regret. Elara knelt, fingers tracing the skeletal branches of a petrified oak. Its leaves hadn’t fallen. They *became* stone, smooth and grey against her palm. Ten days. That’s how long it…
Bloom & Fracture
## Bloom & Fracture The hum vibrated through Elara’s bones, a constant thrum beneath the manufactured dusk. Sixteen leagues down, past the shimmering algae vats and hydroponic forests, lay Section Gamma-Nine. Her shift began. Not that it mattered much anymore.…
The Bloom
## The Bloom The air tasted of iron and wet stone. Rain, not gentle drizzle but a solid sheet, hammered against the corrugated roof of Elias’s workshop. He ignored it, focused on the moss growing in intricate patterns across the…