Shards of the Past – Phase One
The gods don’t forgive deserters. Nyota Karungi became one anyway.
In the decaying ruins of Oba-9, history is a crime and memory is a death sentence. Nyota is a scavenger surviving on the scraps of a world optimized into silence by the High Collective—until she falls into a buried archive and awakens Jua, a forbidden core of ancient light that pulses with the heartbeat of a dead civilization.
She has spent her life running from the ghosts of her past, only to realize she is the vessel they’ve been waiting for.
The collision is immediate: the High Collective’s black-winged drones are descending to deconstruct the “unauthorized echo” Nyota has become. Armed with a humming glyph-blade and a mind flooded with three centuries of suppressed ancestral knowledge, Nyota is no longer just a scavenger. She is the Èkèjí—the Second-born—a living bridge between matter and essence in a world where data rains like prophecy.
Will she sacrifice her humanity to become the weapon the ancestors demand, or let the last embers of her heritage burn out to save the only life she has ever known?
This Afrofuturist military fantasy weaves African cosmology with quantum storytelling to ask: what remains holy in an optimized world?
Can one girl’s memory rewrite the machine, or is some history better left deleted?
Prepare for an unforgettable emotional journey through the Rift, where every word is a libation and silence is the ultimate enemy.
Shards of the Past – Phase One
Afrofuturist Science Fantasy Saga
By: OS XENOSHEN
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
Release date: 07-21-26
Language: English
Format and Bitrate: M4B@125 kbps
Size: 387.75 MB
