4 Results in the "Original" category
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Cold stone. No memory. Twenty-three strangers. Alan wakes in an ancient plaza with nothing but his name on a cloth tag and a fountain that feels impossibly familiar. Around him, twenty-two others are waking to the same nightmare: complete memory loss, no past, no idea how they got here. Then the Registrar arrives with the truth. They’re “arrivals”—people who appear in Kemala tutorial town… -
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Venturing Realities
When death is just the beginning of the lesson. Lynn wakes on a pirate ship with no memory of how he got there—only the salt of the sea and the kindness of strangers who shouldn’t exist. The Rumbar Pirates take him in, teach him to heal, to fight, to find rhythm in chaos. For the first time in any life he can remember, he… -
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Istra Auralis
In a world where the extraordinary are harvested, the safest power is the one no one sees. Claude Ironfist is six years old when he realizes he’s not alone in his own mind. voices—fragments of lives—whisper guidance, share memories of deaths both heroic and brutal, and warn him of a terrible truth: The gods are watching. And they love a good story. Now, armed… -
Claude remembers deaths he never died. Skills he never trained. Fears he never earned. Instincts that move his body before thought catches up—borrowed from versions of himself who failed. In the Six-Faced World, he is something that shouldn’t exist: a convergence point. A child carrying the weight of countless failures, hoping to be the one who finally breaks the pattern. The Metastasis scattered everything…
