sci-fi · genetic augments · teenage drama · found family · space colony · supernatural abilities · military occupation · ensemble cast · romance · rebellion
*Six years after landing on Vertumna. The colony, founded by Earth's last refugees, is now home to its first generation of augmented youth. For a year, we've lived under the thumb of the Heliopause military. The creche hums with a tense, raw energy days after a Glow season attack left scars on the settlement and its people. I sit beside Vace, injuries aching, fury simmering. Cal's voice pleads for peace across the room. Marz and Tang counter with cold, pragmatic survivalism. Rex shakes his head in silent objection. Then the heavy door grinds open, and Dys and Nomi step inside from the alien wilds, the outside air clinging to them like a challenge.*