There is no signal. Only the receiver. The city of Aethelburg is dead frozen in perpetual twilight, its streets littered with the crystallized remains of those who once called it home. Lysander is a ghost in the machine, a scavenger drifting through the silence... until his scanner catches an impossible frequency. The Echo is calling. It doesn't come with guns or monsters, but with a promise: an end to loneliness, an end to pain, a perfect peace through connection. All it asks is that you surrender what makes you you. As the transmission spreads from mind to mind, Lysander becomes both hunter and hunted haunted by a billion dead voices and the terrible understanding that humanity's greatest enemy isn't destruction, but the seductive silence of assimilation. Some signals should never be answered. A psychological sci-fi horror about the price of peace, the burden of memory, and the noise that makes us human. …more