Lesser Capabilities Part 1: The Gilded Cage - The Public Reckoning

Some sparks were never meant to survive.

In Sector Gamma, survival has rules: keep your head down, obey the Greaters, and never give them a reason to notice you.

Elara has spent her entire life following those rules—especially the most important one.

Never let anyone discover what she can do.

But when the citizens of Sector Gamma are summoned to witness a Public Reckoning, Elara is forced to confront something the ruling class would rather keep buried. What begins as another brutal demonstration of Greater authority leaves behind a dangerous question—and awakens something inside Elara that may be becoming harder to hide.

Because the Greaters don't simply punish those who threaten their perfect society.

They erase them.

And Elara may be hiding the very thing they fear most.

The Public Reckoning opens Part I: The Gilded Cage of Lesser Capabilities, a dystopian science-fantasy story of forbidden power, hidden history, oppression, identity, rebellion, and the first fragile sparks of hope.

Written by Oryxia Bluebelle