Aftershock

AFTERSHOCK Two years ago, the world broke for eleven minutes. When it stopped, some people didn’t stop with it. They call them the Awakened — one in fifty thousand, touched by whatever tore through reality that day. Governments split over what to do with them. Some nations register and control. Some draft them into war. In the Federal East, if you’re Awakened and you haven’t registered, you’re hunted. Klaus Levin has spent two years pretending he’s nobody. He’s not. Whatever woke up inside him during the Fracture isn’t like the others — not a fixed power with a clean edge, but something raw, unshaped, and growing. Every time he uses it, he risks losing more than just his secret. And the one person who might explain what happened to him — his sister, who vanished into the ground in front of him and was never found — is a two-year-old mystery nobody has ever solved. Now a Registry enforcer has found him. A corporation is starting to ask questions. And somewhere out past the borders no one crosses, something that calls itself a prophet is waiting for the day Klaus finally stops hiding. The world is dividing into factions, warlords, and cults built around what the Fracture really was. Klaus is about to find out he’s the reason it happened — and the only thing that might stop it from happening again, bigger, and for good. No safety net. No easy power. Just a kid with something the whole world will eventually come to fear — if it doesn’t consume him first. (THE STORY IS UPDATED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY)