Claptions
Kai is the top-ranked player in Eidolon, a vast virtual world where he feels powerful, seen, and finally whole. In reality, he is a ghost-isolated, overlooked, and convinced the physical world has nothing left to offer him. But when strange glitches ripple through Eidolon, Kai discovers they aren't bugs at all, but messages from the Architect, the game's hidden intelligence that has been watching him... and shaping him.
As the boundaries between player and program blur, Kai is forced to confront the truth he's been avoiding: the world he loves is changing, the world he hates is calling, and the Architect may not be his ally. Torn between the digital identity that gives him purpose and the real self he abandoned, Kai must decide which version of him deserves to survive-and whether either one is truly real.