Terms of Residence

Daniel enters the carefully serviced world of the Aurelia Strand, where comfort depends on rules, permissions, records, scheduling, and the quiet labor of people who keep residential life frictionless. Small requests, neighborly expectations, access decisions, maintenance, and procedural courtesy gradually reveal how private space can become governed without ever feeling overtly controlled. The novel treats residence as a lived relationship among people, property, service, and memory - and asks what happens when convenience begins deciding which forms of inconvenience are permitted to remain visible.