Dani0723
In a future where human emotions are terraforming weapons, a cynical geologist and a brilliant "Affect Weaver" must navigate a sentient, love-starved Earth and a ruthless corporate regime to rediscover the one feeling that can save the dying planet: genuine connection.Earth is hungry. And it only craves one thing.
The Great Separation didn't just split continents-it severed humanity from its own emotions. To survive on a now-hostile planet, people have outsourced their feelings to the monolithic AFFECT Corporation. Joy, sorrow, and rage are carefully metered, bottled, and sold. Love was the first emotion to be outlawed-too volatile, too dangerous.
Kaelen Stone maps dead rock for AFFECT, believing only in data and the cold logic of survival. His world is upended when he is assigned to the "Terra Regina Project," a last-ditch effort to pacify a continent-sized landmass that violently convulses with repressed seismic emotion.
His guide is Lyra Vex, a rogue Affect Weaver. Unlike the Corporation's technicians who suppress feeling, Lyra secretly communicates with the planet's raw, psychic geography. She believes Earth isn't attacking-it's heartbroken, and its violent "Love Bites" (catastrophic earthquakes that follow patterns of human neglect) are cries for a connection it lost.
Branded traitors for their heretical bond, Kaelen and Lyra go on the run. Pursued by AFFECT's emotionless enforcers, they must journey across a whispering desert of crystalline sorrow, scale mountains of fossilized anger, and cross a forest that grows in the shape of forgotten memories. As Kaelen's own long-suppressed feelings begin to surface, their fledgling, illegal attraction starts to trigger beautiful, stabilizing anomalies in the landscape.
To save the Earth, they must perform the ultimate forbidden act: feel a real, un-metered, and unconditional love. But in doing so, they might just give the sentient planet the weapon it needs to either reclaim its children... or consume them whole.