When the end of the universe descends in the name of "balance," two cursed symbiotes become the final sparks of civilization.
Ayla is not human. She is a living "Gate," an anti-entropic singularity born from the universe's struggle against the flood of entropy.
Her left eye is molten gold, scorching the laws of all things. Her right eye sheds blood, imprisoning the humanity that is about to fade.
Lin Ye, an exile bearing a mark from another world, draws the lethal corruption into himself to keep the tide of entropy from devouring Ayla.
Blue-black flames ignite from his right arm, and a thorn-like web of nerves binds them in a painful symbiosis: he becomes the anchor of her humanity, while she becomes the rack to which his flesh is stretched.
They are hunted by the Astral Law Tower, whose proclaimed "protection" is a lie.
When arbiter Liana tears open the organization's dark secrets and reveals the apocalyptic truth of the "Entropy Sea Protocol", that its so-called purification means feeding the anti-entropic spark to a cosmic graveyard called the "Pale Echo", the three are forced to flee through the ruins of a civilization whose gears are collapsing.
But the shackles have already been forged:
Every time Ayla awakens, her humanity moves another inch away from her molten-gold divinity;
Every pang of entropy borne by Adam unravels the bloody truth of the Astral Law Tower usurping the power of the "Gate";
And the fragments of primordial code clutched in Liana's hand are both a remedy that delays their transformation and the fuse that will ignite the final catastrophe...
The coordinates of the Pale Echo are flickering. When Article Zero of the Entropy Sea Protocol is activated, it will not only annihilate three fugitives, but also every echo of civilization resisting heat death.
"Her tears are the last ashes of humanity; his fire is a shackle stolen from entropy. Their symbiosis is a countercharge against the end of the universe."
