We were entwined in red rings
Of blood and loneliness

Maya Angelou, Kin

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At the incipience of a multiversal war, two agents of diametrically opposing agendas are deadlocked in an interdimensional race that will determine the fate of the multiverse.

No one knows who put the artefacts there, or if they're naturally occuring, willed into existence as evolution has willed mankind into more. Only that in every universe, an artefact exists as a key to travel through dimensions. And they are each defended by and sealed within elusive labyrinths built on myth and fable. To reach an artefact, one must beat the trials and tribulations each labyrinth seeds.

The Agency seeks to destroy every artefact in a bid to maintain the structure and order of the multiverse.

Aegis, on the other hand, is determined to preserve them, to understand them in the name of science.

But when a third organisation rises from the shadows to disrupt the operations of either, it's up to Agency operative Grayson Madani to seek out the virus infecting his precious program.

In the end, it all comes back to her.

The girl from nowhere.

Sabine dressed in shadow and sinister intentions, the swordbearer, the knife twisted time and time again in his back. Daughter of nothing. Destroyer of worlds. Liar and cheat. Lingering ghost of something he'll always miss.

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SABINE ╱ VIRUS.

GRAYSON MADANI ╱ ANTI-VIRUS.

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It starts with bloodshed, always bloodshed, always the same running from something larger than yourself story, shoving money into the jaws of a suitcase, cutting your hair with a steak knife at a rest stop, and you're off, you're on the run, a fugitive driving away from something shameful and half-remembered.

Richard Siken, Driving, Not Washing

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SOUNDTRACK:

CALL AND RESPONSE

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AUTHOR'S NOTE.

this used to be on tinnedfish but that account is currently giving me acid reflux so i'm going to write for this and not think too hard about it. this is the first draft of something that's been living in my head for 5 years and has been driving me crazy ever since. i hope you like grayson and sabine, who will be suffering but having such fun doing so!

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