Metered

In a future where every human walks around with glowing meters floating above their heads, seventeen‑year‑old Ryn is failing the one stat you're never supposed to let drop: Social.

When her meter tanks toward zero, the government orders her to a Wellbeing Center for "correction," which is basically code for emotional lobotomy. Ryn's ready to fake a smile and survive another day... until her meter starts dropping no matter what she does. Forced. Manipulated. Targeted.

And apparently, she's not the only one.

A too‑perfect Regulator with suspiciously flawless stats claims he can help her. Her glitch‑happy best friend says the Centers are making people disappear. And Ryn? She's stuck between trusting a stranger in uniform or letting the system rewrite her mind.

Her meter says she's unstable.
Her gut says something much worse is coming.
And if she wants to stay herself, she'll have to break the system that's been breaking her.