Book 1: Disappearances
The city prides itself on order. Every citizen wears a Virtue Index band that measures participation, compliance, and reliability, quietly guiding a society that believes it has solved instability.
As an emergency medical responder, Timok Varin's work is simple: answer the call, stabilize the patient, file the report, move on.
Until the reports start behaving strangely.
A patient record appears where none should exist. A dispatch closes before responders arrive. Routine paperwork begins repeating the same unfamiliar language. Each anomaly is small-easy to dismiss-but they keep appearing on Timok's calls.
He isn't trying to uncover anything. He isn't trying to investigate, but eventually, he isn't left with a choice.