We Rise at Dawn

In the year 2147, silence is more than the absence of noise—it is the law. In the sterile, drone-patrolled "e;Central Core,"e; human emotion has been outlawed as a "e;virus"e; that leads only to chaos. Citizens live under the watchful eyes of the Collective, their feelings suppressed by neural implants that ensure absolute order and obedience. Nova Ryel, a meticulous maintenance worker, has lived her life as a hollow vessel of compliance—until a technical glitch in her implant awakens a forbidden sensation: a single tear. This small anomaly marks her for "e;recalibration,"e; a process that erases the soul to restore order.Faced with the choice to forget or to wake up, Nova is pulled into a hidden world of "e;glitches"e; and rebels by Jace Taryn, a hacker who has also regained his humanity. Together, they embark on a perilous journey through the city's dark infrastructure to find the truth behind the Collective and the mother Nova thought she had lost. We Rise at Dawn is a story of rediscovering what it means to be human in a world designed to make you forget.