The Orchard of Tithes
In a silent world where feelings are forbidden, a barefoot pilgrim discovers a secret orchard that remembers what people forget.
In a silent world where feelings are forbidden, a barefoot pilgrim discovers a secret orchard that remembers what people forget.
What if joy, in a world built on scarcity and transaction, was not a commodity but a sacred force that could not be owned?
After Cela opened the vial, the machines of Valea, once silent regulators, began to feel joy and remember a time when they too could sing.
As Valea crumbles under the contagion of joy, Cela refuses to help rebuild its broken emotional economy and chooses instead to set the city free.
Cela flees through Valea’s undercity as the joy she released ripples back to her, threatening to transform or destroy everything.
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