The air in the sublevel lab tasted like static, sharp and metallic, as Dr. Elara Voss adjusted the spectrometer’s dial. The machine hissed, its green readout flickering between numbers that didn’t make sense. She’d seen anomalies before—fluctuations in quantum fields,…
The air reeked of ozone and burnt metal, a sour tang that clung to the back of Dr. Lira Voss’s throat as she adjusted the visor on her helmet. Outside the colony’s reinforced dome, the sky churned with violet clouds,…
Dr. Elara Voss adjusted the neural interface, her fingers trembling as the hum of the machine filled the sterile lab. The air smelled of ozone and antiseptic, a scent that had become familiar over the past year. She stared at…
The first time Dr. Elara Voss touched the fragment, it pulsed like a heartbeat. She’d found it buried in the rubble of a derelict research station on Kodiak Island, its jagged edges glinting under the harsh fluorescent lights of the…
## The Seam Rain lashed against the corrugated steel roof of the observation post. A relentless drumming that swallowed everything else except the low thrum vibrating through the soles of Elias Thorne’s boots. He tightened his grip on the data…
## Echo Bloom The bus rumbled, a mechanical beast chewing gravel as it clawed its way up the Icelandic highlands. Elara traced circles on the fogged window, rain blurring the landscape into an indistinct wash of grey. Iceland. She’d booked…