Eternal Hunt

Eternal Hunt is a literary novel about cities that learn to applaud—and the quiet craft of teaching them to stop. In an unnamed city where bells, corridors, and crowds have mistaken rhythm for law, a thin urge known as the seam turns ordinary signals into commands and movement into obedience. Applause becomes timekeeping. Speed becomes virtue. And running is mistaken for purpose. The Hunters arrive not to win a chase, but to refuse it. Once sworn to an oath that measured worth by distance, they now practice a different discipline: slowing rooms down. They hush bells, bend corridors, salt hinges, set benches where haste becomes a seat. Their tools are modest—nets, wedges, ropes, breath counts—and their victories are deliberately unspectacular. Through foundries, courts, towers, quays, and halls that itch to become choirs, the Hunters apply a repeating ritual: Hands. Down. Walk. Do not read. Three. What they hunt is not only a boy turned rumor, but a habit—our readiness to turn noise into authority and motion into meaning. Written with poetic restraint and philosophical precision, Eternal Hunt honors boredom as an earned quiet, ritual as communal memory, and maintenance as a moral act. This is a novel where heroism wears work clothes, where safety repeats, and where the most radical act is teaching a city to sit still. For readers drawn to literary fiction, symbolic urban fantasy, and stories that question spectacle, speed, and obedience, Eternal Hunt offers a calm, unsettling reminder: many curses do not need to be fought—only patiently, politely unlearned.