by silas maximus
Sara Roush has a secret. She's seen and done it all before. Using the device that is causing the downfall of humanity to an unknown malicious infestation, her job is to search timeline after timeline for one either free of the things chasing them down, or one with the answers to fight back. Their assailants are always watching, so she spends her days undercover-- as her alternate self. At least, as long as she can. Only time will tell if the needle can be found before the haystack burns. *Warning: Esoteric and complicated extended metaphors. I don't really know how to write without them, sorry.**Updates of at least one chapter a week, maybe two, depending on how it goes. Thanks for reading.*
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 18:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 18:48 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
10%
Two or more lists
5%
Likely threshold order: Drama → Satire → Contemporary → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama (4%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#3846 of 12,382 · 3796 below RS #50
By genre
beats 73% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 21% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
