Vitrified Memory

A Sci-Fi Epic of Mass Empathy and Geological Terror The silence of the mountains was never empty; it was just waiting. In the winter of 2025, a diamond-tipped drill in the Idaho panhandle inadvertently awakens a prehistoric Entity—a "Library of Screams" that has spent eons absorbing the memories of the extinct. As the Entity slides toward the surface, it doesn't just consume flesh; it harvests the human experience, leaving trails of iridescent glass and voices of the dead in its wake. Biochemist Elena Vance returns to her hometown of Silvertip Falls to find it a ghost town of frozen moments. When she discovers her young daughter, Lily, possesses a mysterious connection to the shifting earth, Elena realizes this isn't just an invasion—it's an evolution. The Entity, known as the First Emissary, is rewriting the laws of biology to turn the human race into a "Covenant" of shared consciousness. From the terrifying first "Handshake" at the Bunker Hill mine to the formation of the "Glistening Shroud" over the atmosphere, Elena must race to categorize a phenomenon that defies the periodic table. As the world transitions into a "Mass Empathy" event, the boundaries of the "Self" begin to dissolve. In a world where your neighbor's trauma becomes your own, Elena must become the ultimate curator of memory. If the human race is to survive the transition into 2026, she must find a way to preserve the individual "books" of human life before the Entity turns the world into a single, silent Verse.