Continuity
by Elias Korrin
Beneath a shining city, an endless cycle devours its own.
Aria, a nameless technician reduced to her designation-4213-works the conveyors of Sector 7, where flesh, bone, and memory are broken down into quotas that sustain the world above. But when fragments of forbidden knowledge surface through her datapad, she begins to glimpse the vast intelligence pulsing beneath the machinery: the Core.
Surveillance is constant. Correction is inevitable. Resistance itself may be nothing more than another function of the cycle. As whispers in the ducts grow into voices, and reality collapses into rhythm, Aria must confront the chilling truth-she was never outside the system. She has always been inside it.
Cold, clinical, and oppressive, Continuity is a descent into horror where the self is stripped away, the system is eternal, and the only mercy is assimilation.