sagesilva
Fifty years after humanity fled a dying Earth and spent a decade migrating to the ocean world of Kepler‑186F, the floating city of AquaNova hangs over endless turquoise water, glittering with promise and quiet unease. Here, technology can rebuild bodies, rewrite faces, and soften the past into something unrecognizable. In this new era, Lily Constella-a relentless journalist with paint‑stained hands and a mind full of questions-lands the interview everyone wants: a one‑on‑one with Dr. Casper Kline, the nanotech pioneer worshipped by some as a savior and feared by others as the architect of humanity's undoing. What begins in her art-filled studio as a calm, careful conversation about healing quickly twists into a chilling warning about power, identity, and those left behind. When Lily finally publishes their exchange, the world doesn't just react-it erupts. Her article spreads like wildfire, igniting confessions of quiet grief: sisters who no longer recognize each other, parents whose smiles have been edited smooth, friends who chose "upgrades" over memories. As AquaNova fractures into those chasing transformation and those clinging to what "human" used to mean, Lily finds herself pulled from observer to reluctant catalyst. With protests rising in the streets below her window and a town hall meeting looming, Lily must face a terrifying question: in a future where anyone can become someone else, who will dare to stay the same-and what will it cost them?