Integration 47 [DRAFT]

Book 1 of the Latticefall Series — The BleedingThe sky breaks.The System drops.Newark stabilizes at 47% reality. Marcus was a logistics guy before the Integration—good at routes, risk, and keeping people moving. Now streets glitch, buildings grow crystal veins, gravity forgets itself, and “safe zones” fill faster than people can reach them. The new world runs on levels, classes, and hard choices. Marcus has none of the usual hero advantages: no combat background, no legendary bloodline, no secret prophecy. Just pattern recognition, a battered box cutter, a survivor group that keeps shrinking, and a sarcastic raccoon companion with terrible timing and suspiciously good instincts. To keep his people alive, Marcus must read a city that no longer follows human rules, outthink things that used to be human, and decide what kind of class fits a man built to solve problems—not win wars. In a world rewriting itself in real time, survival isn’t about being the strongest.It’s about finding the pattern before the pattern finds you.[This is a draft] - I will go over it again once I finish to add texture and fix any continuity issues then move on to book 2.