The Summoning Stars
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Last published Fri, Apr 10, 2015
By @theorangutan
Don’t let your reality run away with you.
Cal and Helena seem to be living an idealistic childhood within the utopian metropolis of The City. The Mind protects them from the barren wasteland outside the walls. Virtual reality provides them with education and entertainment. Everything seems perfect until a failed experiment claims the young life of Helena. But moments after Helena’s death, Cal receives a message that chills him to the bone and casts everything he has ever known into doubt. Is Helena really gone? Or is The Mind concealing the truth?
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