Echoes from Arcadia - A Life through the Mists
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Last published Wed, Apr 22, 2026
Amid the mists of memory and time...
Sophie, a legend with a haunted past and a tormented soul, recounts her youth to Jessie, a fourteen-year-old who idolizes her. Caught by the wake of a glorious shipwreck of a life she left behind, Sophie is pulled decades into the past-back to her first mission on Venus. Codename: Zephyr.
A mission holding the keys to saving the present... and perhaps, at last, to imagining a future.
Seemingly simple, this assignment drags a reckless young woman-who thought herself indifferent to the world-into the labyrinth of corporate conspiracies, among ordinary lives struggling simply... to exist.
Gentle or brutal encounters, hopes and disillusions, a fate already marked-perhaps even written-or just a life drifting through the void that gnawed at the solar system long before Arcadia.
"Shine brighter than hell, Sophie.
It's all we have... once we've already sold our souls."
- Nexa Ashfall
Cyberpunk, space opera, and melancholy: an odyssey between two worlds, told by a heroine who has lost everything... except the hope of saving the ones she loves. This time.
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