When the lights go out
By @Rope Life
In a post-war Australia, Mika Morrison, a calculating young boy, possesses the rare ability to interface with ancient, sapient environmental networks. He navigates a fractured society where technologically advanced 'Enhanced' communities coexist uneasily with baseline humanity, all under the shadow of recurring blackouts. These aren't just power failures; they are coordinated attacks, systematically unraveling consciousness itself. When his friends begin experiencing disturbing dissociative episodes, Mika must master his connection to the planet's root systems. He discovers a terrifying truth: the ancient networks have been preparing him and his peers as the 'Custodians' of Earth's collective mind, destined to face an existential threat that lurks within the encroaching darkness. Failure means the permanent erasure of all sentient thought.
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