Cycle Zero

The world ended not in fire, but in mutation.

A fast-spreading plague twisted humans into Shells - mindless, warped husks driven by instinct and rage. Nations fell, governments unraveled, and military resistance crumbled under the sheer ferocity of the infected. Communication died, and with it, civilization. Survivors fled to fortified enclaves, watching from behind walls as the world outside rotted, stalked by the echoes of what humanity had become.

In the race for a cure, scientists unlocked something hidden deep within human DNA - something ancient, alien, and never meant to be found.

Genarchs.
Not human. Not mutant. Amoral creatures - chimeras of flesh and bone - that absorb human DNA, shaping new identities from the lives they've consumed. Their arrival didn't bring war or conquest - but it changed everything. Their presence triggered a dormant power in humanity: telekinesis.

Powerful telekinetics became humanity's last hope against the Shells - and possibly the Genarchs. Women with the gift are especially valued, able to pass the ability to their offspring. In some outposts, they're protected. In others, they're owned.

Ora is a telekinetic in her settlement, valued not for her power but for her ability to bear the next generation. She's spent her life behind the protective walls, never venturing beyond them. But when her home is attacked and her fellow TK women kidnapped, she sets out with one goal: bring them back home.

Her unlikely protector is Ezo, a genetically engineered hybrid of human and Shell. Once a war dog, Ezo develops an obsessive devotion to Ora after she unknowingly saves him. He's intelligent, lethal, and the only reason she's still alive.

Together, they travel a fractured world ruled by warlords, scarred by history, and shaped by secrets rooted in human DNA. But Ora's mission is bigger than survival - it's about reclaiming power, rewriting fate, and becoming more than what the world has allowed her to be.