SIXGlare & Void Mauro tried to speak with Corban Preston, the Vice President of Technological Development at Mindsoft, but he couldn't get past the reception. Corban had travelled to Paraguay with Bret Lingford.He wandered the streets until ...

FIVE Blood & Oxygen It was just past four in the morning when Lourdes woke up Mauro. He had fallen asleep at a table in the cafeteria. Finally, they had a diagnosis and the doctor had scheduled a meeting for them to discuss the details....

FOUR Gloss & Silicon In the dim light of the warehouse, Mauro lay asleep on the table, surrounded by the server's points of light behind him, processing data with flickering screens. The reflections of the screen's glow danced on his fa...

THREEWind & Rain The beer flowed down the edge of the glass mug, filling it from the bottom. The foam that formed was bluish-white, illuminated by the techno ambiance of the Faktor Bar. The yellow, effervescent liquid rose as deep and slow b...

TWO Concrete & Glass An endless stream of code scrolled across the central monitor in the laboratory. Victoria scrutinized it with absolute concentration, searching for the error that occurred every time the virtual simulation program w...

PART IONE Lights & Stars Mauro had become a fugitive from justice for attempting to save the life of the woman he loved. He had managed to evade the private security of the company that was pursuing him, and now he was hiding in a secre...

It happened in 2024.Suddenly, a significant portion of humanity was devastated by the force of nature.The first blow was an impossible event: the supposedly extinct volcano, Suribachi, in Iwo Jima, erupted. Japan, China, and all of East Asia went int...