Author: JKMATHEW

Lila Carter stared at the cascading data streams, fingers flying across her console. Anomaly. A flicker in the city grid, a ghost signal buried deep within Neo Arcadia’s core systems. She isolated the blip – coordinates. Impossible coordinates, beyond the city limits, into the uncharted Fog Zones. Her coffee, forgotten, grew cold as a thrill,… Read more

Alex Harper, slender and agile, traced glowing lines on the holographic map, fingers dancing across New Gaia’s shimmering districts. A city-wide power surge, violent and abrupt, ripped through the tower apartment. The map flickered, then blazed, a hidden sector pulsing crimson – a location beyond the city limits, shrouded in digital fog. Alarms blared in… Read more

Mia Harper scavenged amidst rusted skeletons of vehicles, her slender frame weaving through the metallic graveyard. Rats, fat and brazen, scattered from her path, their eyes gleaming in the perpetual fog that choked New Haven. She kicked at a loose sheet of metal, frustration tightening her jaw. Empty. Again. Then, a faint glow pulsed from… Read more

Rain lashed against Alex’s face as he stood outside the Ravenwood mausoleum. He wasn’t here for grief; observation was his shield. Inside, whispers about the relic started immediately after the service concluded, hushed tones about its sudden appearance on the altar. A verger stumbled, knocking over a candelabra, plunging the chapel into deeper shadow. Panic… Read more