The Husk

Lazarus, 2056. Clara Veylan is nineteen, a mechanic, a freelancer, and wholly unbound. The Council declares her body unready, although it responds to every biological interface more strongly than it should.

Then a salvage mission takes her to an abandoned institute beyond the wall. Something escapes an empty husk and gains access to Clara’s senses through her diagnostic band. It feels nothing. It gathers information, regards itself as Clara’s tool, and calculates a route that none of the four known Paths of bio-armor allow.

As Clara builds that route in secret, materials, records, and empty husks vanish from the city’s stores. If the Council discovers what she carries, she will lose her freedom. If she refuses to use it, she will remain defenceless against something already recalculating Lazarus from within.

Volume 1 of “The Countdown of the Self”, the first book of the Edenfalls series. Dark science fiction, biopunk, and mystery with bio-armor and a structured progression system.