by Panch
The year is 1311. The Indian Ocean is the center of the world — its trade routes connecting East Africa to Persia to India to the Punjab, a civilization of monsoon winds and shared scripts and five hundred years of trust built across open water. Somewhere beneath all of it, older than any of the traditions that cross it, older than the first ship that ever sailed it — something is waking up. Five strangers. One ocean. One secret older than time. Setting: Indian Ocean world, 1311 AD & present day Genre: Grounded thriller with supernatural elements "The ocean doesn't belong to anyone. That's why everyone crossed it."
