Echoes in the Margin

In a city where reality is edited like a manuscript, Isla is running out of margins.

When a cryptic message leads Isla into the Nighthold-a labyrinth of shifting rooms and impossible corridors-she stumbles upon the margins: living fragments of history and memory, trimmed from the main text of the world. Myths that never were. Cities that vanished twice. People who have been... revised.

The keeper of this archive, known only as Cipher, offers her a choice: take something from the margins, or give something away. Either way, the balance must be kept.

But trades here aren't made with gold. They're made with pieces of yourself. A name. A memory. A moment you thought was yours forever. And the wrong choice can rewrite you into something unrecognizable-or erase you entirely.

As the city outside bends into unfamiliar shapes, Isla discovers that someone she thought she'd lost-someone who might hold the truth about the margins-is still out there. Finding him could mean undoing what's been rewritten... or tearing the whole draft of reality apart.

In a place where every choice edits the story, Isla has to decide: will she become the author of her own fate, or just another redaction?