The Unbound Warden

Margaret spent six years learning how to disappear from a system built to find her, faking every dose of the drug her world forces on its people, one capsule at a time, ever since she watched it kill her mother. The day it finally catches her, she is not punished. She is needed. An artifact no one can explain has appeared in the hands of a dying regime, and it requires exactly one thing the state spent decades making sure did not exist anymore: a citizen who was never drugged at all. Margaret is the only one left. Whether she agrees or not, she is going through it. On the other side waits a world of levels, quests, and consequences that do not stay inside the game, and a place in it that found her before she ever found it. She just does not know that part yet.