Through the Cracks (The Iron Protocol Archives, #0.5)

No one escapes the White Seed.
Except them.
On a shattered moon at the edge of Patchwork space, Renna just wants to keep her young son Diel alive. But when a Signal Monk arrives preaching salvation, the settlement's whispers turn dangerous. To the zealots, Diel isn't a boy-he's the Foretold Vessel.
As neighbors falter under the creeping plague of the White Seed-forgetting names, losing faces, becoming obedient husks-Renna must make a terrible choice. Stay and be swallowed, or flee through the ruins with only her brother's keepsake and a child whose strange gift may doom or save them all.
But every step is hunted. Every breath could be the last. And at Vyre's gate, survival will demand the ultimate price.
Through the Cracks is a gripping prequel novella to the Iron Protocol trilogy, perfect for fans of dystopian survival, found family, and sci-fi that asks what it means to remember.

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