Her city score hit zero overnight. No identity, no housing, no appeal. Then a message appeared from the man who built the system — and he chose her deliberately.
In Meridian, your Axis score is your identity — housing, employment, legal status, all of it determined by a number the system never explains and the courts never challenge. Kael Morrow's score was 94. One morning it was zero. No error notification. No appeal pathway. Living in the gaps between Meridian's data layers, Kael does what she spent eight years doing for Meridian's own infrastructure team: she maps the architecture. She finds seven architects. She's worked through four of them. The fifth one knows she's coming. He left her a message.
18 chapters available
Chapters
1Chapter 1: The Gate Rejects Her2Chapter 2: Walking South3Chapter 3: Forty-Eight Hours4Chapter 4: The Terminal5Chapter 5: Eight Hundred and Forty-Seven6Chapter 6: The Seven Architects7Chapter 7: The Courier8Chapter 8: Rael Falls9Chapter 9: The Fifth Stream10Chapter 10: Two Targets11Chapter 11: The Office That Doesn't Exist12Chapter 12: The Selection Machine13Chapter 13: Don't Leave a Record14Chapter 14: Reserve Designation15Chapter 15: Eleven Minutes16Chapter 16: The Ghost Architect17Chapter 17: The Directive Is Silent18Chapter 18: What Are We For
