by CuriousPluto
In the city of Octarrion, feeling is a crime. The Doctrine of Stillness has taught an entire civilisation to suppress its emotions. Those who feel too deeply are diagnosed, detained, and subjected to a procedure called Stilling; which strips the warmth from their bodies and leaves them hollowed out. Furniture in human form. Kiel Dorn has spent twelve years hiding. A deep-archive archivist with something humming behind his ribs, something the Doctrine calls a disease, he has survived by being invisible. By being still. By never asking what the locked stacks in the lower archive actually contain. Then something in the restricted collection goes missing. And the silence Kiel has built his life around starts to crack. The Archive of Silences is the first book in the Resonance series: a story about what happens when you're told the most human thing about you is a sickness, and you choose not to believe it.
