The Girl who Lived

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After the Cataclysm nearly wiped out humanity, the remnants of mankind survived in Havens: city-sized constructs built to reboot society and usher in a new age of mankind.

However, the new age was not the type the architects had envisioned. The same greed and lust for power that existed before the Cataclysm resurfaced and the Havens quickly became quagmires of political and economic conflict, threatening to destroy the future envisioned by their founders.

This is a world where an indecisive young man can witness the end of all things. Where a boy's impending death can lead to a new life. Where a girl's escape from captivity still may not free her. Where the naivety of youth can be manipulated for evil deeds. Where taking on that last job might be the worst mistake a desperate hacker ever makes.

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The machines do not know me.

They don't see as I do, nor do they possess instinctive reasoning. I've been raised in the habitat since I was an infant, so I know. My earliest memories are of cold, unfeeling metallic bodies, gleaming gears, and silent, whirring parts. My sisters are like I am: human, fleshly. Alive. The machines bred us in laboratories for unknown purposes. They don't bother to tell us what that is.

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