In a future suffocating under dust and surveillance, one woman hears a signal that wasn't meant for her-and answers it anyway.
In the ruins of a world governed by forgotten laws and silent protocols, Maya survives by following rules she writes in pencil and updates with each storm. Stay hidden. Breathe slowly. Don't lie about your choices.
But when an unnatural signal pierces the static-a pulse with no origin and a pattern that shouldn't exist-Maya's routines fracture. She follows its echo into the storm and makes a discovery: a black shard, smooth as glass, warm to the touch, and impossibly alive. The moment she touches it, the world notices her.
Now the signal hunts her back.
Crossroads, a fractured outpost of ration lines and surveillance towers, marks her as an anomaly. The dish above it-the Eye-shifts from watching to seeking. As Maya flees into the red rock canyons where echoes twist truth into lies, she must navigate a landscape where sound can betray, identity is a transaction, and "help" is another word for control.
From the Dust Zones to the underground barter networks of the Rust Viper's Den, Maya is pulled into the forgotten architectures of power: ARCADIA, the unseen system that classifies signals and silences noise; TERRA, the last attempt at civility through consent; and NOVA, the court where all outcomes are final-even if no one remembers the charge.
The deeper Maya goes, the more she learns: this world doesn't just punish those who disobey-it erases them.
Yet Maya's existence is now recorded. Her movement, her breath, even her defiance-all logged. She is no longer surviving the world.
She is rewriting it.
