In Veritas City, silence is survival. Decades after the Resonance, a catastrophic wave of sonic energy, silenced the city, music became a ghost, a forbidden memory. The Council of Sonic Purity rose from the ashes, promising order by eradicating all sound, leaving only the sterile hum of machinery and the chilling whispers of enforced quiet.
Elias Vance, a former acoustic engineer haunted by phantom frequencies, lives a double life. By day, he conforms. By night, he rebels, composing illicit melodies in hidden echo chambers, acts of defiance against the suffocating silence. But when his friend and fellow composer, Teresa, is found dead, her bones vibrating with a final, fatal composition, Elias knows it’s more than a lament—it’s a map to a conspiracy far deeper than he could have imagined.
Teresa’s last piece leads him to Michelle Lowe, a disgraced Council archivist silenced by the regime. Michelle hears the city differently, the hushed whispers and mechanical hums weaving a tapestry of vibrations only she can decipher. Together, they delve into Veritas City’s clandestine music scene, a vibrant counterpoint to the Council’s sterile control, encountering sonic smugglers, rogue instrument makers, and whisperers of forgotten melodies. Their search for truth becomes a fight for survival when they uncover the Sonic Scythe, a weapon that turns sound into a scalpel.
As Elias and Michelle uncover the truth behind the Resonance, they realize the Council’s true aim isn’t just control, but a chilling erasure of the past. Elias must confront his own trauma and harness the very power the Council fears—the resonant force of music—to expose the truth before he, too, becomes a silent note in a killer’s deadly symphony. In a city desperate to forget, one man dares to make it remember.
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