A.D. Tenebris

In the year 2152, Ethos City is a dazzling jewel in the heart of Abyssifar, Africa. Perched high at an astonishing altitude of 8,202 feet above sea level, this futuristic city captivates with its breathtaking skyline. Glass skyscrapers, shimmering like diamonds, stretch toward the heavens, reflecting the vibrant hues of the sun. The architecture is a harmonious blend of modernity and nature, with lush greenery cascading down the sides of buildings, creating a unique urban jungle. As you...

Safehouse Recipes: Smoke-Tea & Ash Bread

The market teaches patience. Tea first, plans second. We brew Smoke-Tea when the air has too much memory in it: pine tips for sharpness, charred lemon rind for the scorch, river mint to cool the mouth enough to talk. Ash Bread is for travel—starter folded into scrapings, ember salt pinched like a blessing. Knead in short turns so the table doesn’t thump; silence carries farther than footsteps. Score the loaf with a single feather mark so even in a...

Redacted Brief 001: The Night the Academy Fell

LDC Dispatch // Clearance: Feather. Fires breached the north stacks at 02:14. Ink crawled the eastern colonnade, not reading the stone so much as remembering it. Seven couriers crossed the lantern bridge—two elders between them, one ledger wrapped in wet canvas. We left the statues facing east so the watchers would think we’d run that way. We didn’t. We dropped into the culvert and came up through the spice stalls, ash in our hair and names on...

What it’s about (no spoilers)

A final decree has made written language illegal. Libraries are leveled. Digital speech is filtered in real time. Amid the ruins of a mountain academy, Kaia Mori—once a student, now an unwilling leader—joins the Literary Defense Corps to protect the last mythic archive hidden in the Northern Mountains.

As the regime’s memory-rewriting device nears deployment, Kaia must rally a fractured alliance—rebels, hackers, deserters, and scholars—before history itself is...