Elia Sorn is a Synth Diver—trained to enter fractured timelines and repair paradoxes before they collapse reality.
Her job is precise. Controlled. Safe.
Until her last mission goes wrong.
She returns to the DSV Meridian with missing time and no clear answers. At first, the changes are subtle—duplicate conversations, conflicting ship logs, crew members remembering events that never happened. Then the ship itself begins to fail in impossible corridors shift, rooms repeat, and systems rewrite themselves while still in use.
Something came back with her.
Buried inside Elia’s neural interface is a living temporal anomaly known as the SYNTH CODE. It is not corruption. It is adaptation. And it is spreading—learning from the ship, the crew, and Elia’s own mind.
She went into a fractured timeline to repair reality. She came back carrying something that shouldn’t exist. Now the ship is rewriting itself—and calling it evolution.As the Meridian descends into unstable reality states, the crew is forced into an impossible
Contain Elia… or risk losing the last stable version of time itself.
But the truth is far worse than anyone understands.