Characters
Swan
Swan, a sixteen-year-old student of violin hoping to attend conservatory. Those who hear her playing often discover rose petals in their pockets later, or remember things that didn’t happen to them. Twin sister of Kali.
Kali
Kali is a disaffected teenager who vents her rage against the shadowy ruling class by breaking into their computers and spilling their secrets across the data-networks of Shanghai like the warm blood of a sacred calf. She is more pessimistic and anti-social than her twin sister Swan, and enjoys remaking the husk of a body she was born into with technologies both retro and bleeding-edge. Her collection of hard-to-find information is both coveted and feared.
Swan & The Swan
Hooked Beak
Found inscribed on a coral chip in the language of krill.
Metamorphoses
Incubation
Encrypted Margaret
Erroneus Heart
Strange operations at the core of the machine-brain interface.
Apostle of the Virtual
The world beyond the real is it own form of truth, and this truth attracts its own adherents, fervent and mysterious.
Emanations of Memory
Incomplete translation of a file recovered from a charred bronze hard drive.
Rin
Rin, aged eleven, is the only child accompanying a research team investigating unexplained phenomena related to subglacial trenches. He passes the dark hours making lists, poring over gaming rulebooks, and listening to the radio when it’s not tuned to any channel. His A.I. companion, Go, is always close at hand.
Silas
Never Normal
Late Night Tales
Pumpkinhead
The Black Hound
In My Secret Place
Rattle These Old Bones
Loveletter
Eye See You
Hold Me Now
Howl
Lost My Fucking Mind
Prelude to the End of the World
Cul-de-Sick
My Life Story
Hortencia
Never Ask Into a Hollow
Conversation heard in a bygone moment.