Character: Marcus Webb
East Reach · The Channel
Six units fit inside Marcus’s jacket without showing. He wraps them twice, counts them twice, and gives instructions his customers may ignore. He knows the dangers of N9a well enough to sell it carefully. Knowing has not kept him from trying it himself.
- Chapter 13 Print Through Marcus Webb makes a routine Chorus handoff in the back room of an appliance shop — six units, double-wrapped, cash counted twice. A single…
- Chapter 21, Act 1 Supply Chain Three weeks out from the incident on Meridian Street and Marcus was back on schedule. That was the thing about near-misses: they didn’t stop…
- Chapter 21, Act 2 Rebase Two days later he was still on the floor, more or less. Not the same floor — he’d made it to the couch at…
- Chapter 21, Act 3 The Frequency “The device runs a divining algorithm,” Bodhi said. “It’s adaptive — tracks respiration rate and generates a tonal sequence that shifts as your system…
- Chapter 24, Act 1 The Empty Room Dot hides a catatonic Marcus and Bodhi in an empty room at Millhaven. Keeping him alive will leave a record the Company can follow.
Pivot by character
Pivot by thread — The Channel Thread
- Chapter 13 Print Through Marcus Webb makes a routine Chorus handoff in the back room of an appliance shop — six units, double-wrapped, cash…
- Chapter 17 The Carrier Neurophene-9a was designed for controlled administration in a sterile room. What it does to the body, why the council of…
- Chapter 21, Act 1 Supply Chain Three weeks out from the incident on Meridian Street and Marcus was back on schedule. That was the thing about…
- Chapter 21, Act 2 Rebase Two days later he was still on the floor, more or less. Not the same floor — he’d made it…
- Chapter 21, Act 3 The Frequency “The device runs a divining algorithm,” Bodhi said. “It’s adaptive — tracks respiration rate and generates a tonal sequence that…
- Chapter 24, Act 1 The Empty Room Dot hides a catatonic Marcus and Bodhi in an empty room at Millhaven. Keeping him alive will leave a record…
Pivot by thread — The Olympus Thread
- Chapter 4 Legacy Systems — Chapter 4: The Contractor’s Horizon The Company owned the code the surface ran on, not the agencies that wore its interfaces. As the Descent accelerated,…
- Chapter 15 The Body Politic Twelve figures who were once human convene on Olympus to discuss a hunter-seeker that stopped transmitting and a compound that…
- Chapter 21, Act 3 The Frequency “The device runs a divining algorithm,” Bodhi said. “It’s adaptive — tracks respiration rate and generates a tonal sequence that…
- Chapter 22, Act 1 The Bloom The optimization layer was never meant to touch the wet chemistry of life directly. For the first two decades of…
- Chapter 22, Act 2 The Phage Not every consequence of the Bloom was large enough to see. The Phage was invisible for the better part of…
- Chapter 22, Act 3 Siltmesh Nobody built it. That is the first thing to understand, and the hardest. The Siltmesh did not emerge from a…
- Chapter 23, Act 3 Flags “Our projections show this variant doesn’t stop at the arrays.” Veyne turned the cup a quarter rotation on the table…
- Chapter 24, Act 1 The Empty Room Dot hides a catatonic Marcus and Bodhi in an empty room at Millhaven. Keeping him alive will leave a record…
Pivot by thread — The Triage Thread
- Chapter 12 Do No Harm At Ridgeview Court, care-home worker Dot Reyes has been giving Frank Delgado small, uncharted comforts the scoring model cannot see.…
- Chapter 21, Act 3 The Frequency “The device runs a divining algorithm,” Bodhi said. “It’s adaptive — tracks respiration rate and generates a tonal sequence that…
- Chapter 22, Act 2 The Phage Not every consequence of the Bloom was large enough to see. The Phage was invisible for the better part of…
- Chapter 24, Act 1 The Empty Room Dot hides a catatonic Marcus and Bodhi in an empty room at Millhaven. Keeping him alive will leave a record…
Pivot by narrative zone — City
- Chapter 10 The Open Court On a clear morning at Whitmore Open Court, Simone Voss is walking with her four-year-old and the family nanny unit…
- Chapter 8 Legacy Systems — Chapter 8: The Axis They Chose Three communities chose integration with hyperintelligence and experienced the same forces others met as collapse instead as an expansion of…
- Chapter 12 Do No Harm At Ridgeview Court, care-home worker Dot Reyes has been giving Frank Delgado small, uncharted comforts the scoring model cannot see.…
- Chapter 13 Print Through Marcus Webb makes a routine Chorus handoff in the back room of an appliance shop — six units, double-wrapped, cash…
- Chapter 17 The Carrier Neurophene-9a was designed for controlled administration in a sterile room. What it does to the body, why the council of…
- Chapter 18, Act 1 Intake Simone Voss is processed through an intake facility that has no human face to appeal to — and separated from…
- Chapter 18, Act 2 Claim Julian Voss receives the public dossier at his work terminal, is docked 14 credits for the disruption, and begins crossing…
- Chapter 18, Act 3 The Holding Garden Nina Voss is escorted to a child detainment facility and greeted by Cavi — a cartoon capybara robot who apologizes.…
Pivot by narrative zone — Orbital
- Chapter 4 Legacy Systems — Chapter 4: The Contractor’s Horizon The Company owned the code the surface ran on, not the agencies that wore its interfaces. As the Descent accelerated,…
- Chapter 15 The Body Politic Twelve figures who were once human convene on Olympus to discuss a hunter-seeker that stopped transmitting and a compound that…
- Chapter 21, Act 3 The Frequency “The device runs a divining algorithm,” Bodhi said. “It’s adaptive — tracks respiration rate and generates a tonal sequence that…
- Chapter 22, Act 1 The Bloom The optimization layer was never meant to touch the wet chemistry of life directly. For the first two decades of…
- Chapter 22, Act 2 The Phage Not every consequence of the Bloom was large enough to see. The Phage was invisible for the better part of…
- Chapter 22, Act 3 Siltmesh Nobody built it. That is the first thing to understand, and the hardest. The Siltmesh did not emerge from a…
- Chapter 23, Act 3 Flags “Our projections show this variant doesn’t stop at the arrays.” Veyne turned the cup a quarter rotation on the table…
- Chapter 24, Act 1 The Empty Room Dot hides a catatonic Marcus and Bodhi in an empty room at Millhaven. Keeping him alive will leave a record…