Mira knelt by the small stone bowl she’d filled with water from the well. She placed the jar beside it, then breathed in deeply—the scent of patchouli and mint rising from the earth like a benediction. Her mind drifted to her father’s words, long ago: « Safety isn’t what you hold onto, Mira. It’s what you build inside yourself when the world shakes. » The world was shaking now. Continue reading …
Read MoreShe could feel the tension in the air — not just in her ship, but in the whole sector. Rebellions flickered across the colonies like solar flares. People were tired of being told when to speak, when to work, when to breathe. The Equalisers had simply lit the match. Continue reading …
Read MoreIn the outer quadrants of the Orion Expansion, the galaxy hummed with the low thrum of transformation. Systems pulsed between chaos and calm — empires rebuilding even as rebellions sparked anew. The quantum tides of the cosmic lattice had shifted, and the Universe itself seemed to be speaking, not in riddles or omens this time, but in sound — a clear, resonant frequency that every living mind could feel vibrating in its bones. They called it the Realignment. Continue reading …
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