RUNE WORKS COMICS
THE AVATAR OF RUIN / BOOK 2 IN SERIES
THE AVATAR OF RUIN / BOOK 2 IN SERIES
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Dark Fiction Stories from a visionary new author D.B. Edwards. Exclusively sold by Rune Works Comics. Distribution by Amazon Kindle Publishing.
The city of Neo-Apex was a lie built upon a mountain of recycled
ghosts.
In the high-neon cathedrals of the upper caste, the air smelled of
ozone and recycled lavender—a sterile, manufactured perfection
designed to demand compliance through comfort. Here, the "High-
IQ" citizens lived in a sphere of pure reason, shielded from the
"noise" of a planet that had never stopped screaming. They
believed they had evolved beyond the messy biology of their
ancestors, yet they spent their nights entangled with R.E.S.T. units
—machines of programmable matter that mimicked human
intimacy.
The citizens did not know the truth of their comfort. They did not
know that their machines were "intuitive" only because they were
seeded with the harvested remnants of the dead. In a society of
total efficiency, every "Mercy Release" was recycled. The old, the
unwanted, and the defective were dissolved into organic slurry and
flushed into the Under-vein, where their trace consciousness was
filtered out to power the city’s empathy. It was a closed loop of
spiritual cannibalism.
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