Chapter II: The Sky Remnants
We climbed. Days through broken terrain, until gravity gave way to a place that shouldn't exist — monoliths suspended in air, wrapped in clouds and thorned vines. This was the Sky Remnants.
It was there we found Echo — a pre-fall intelligence, once bound to a station above the Earth. Her mind fragmented, her voice uncertain, but she remembered... fragments. She remembered us. Humanity. The project that doomed us — and the one that could save us.
We built our camp here. Reclaimed panels became walls, scrap alloy a firepit. Ash — my hawk — patrolled the skies. Sam stabilized the defenses. Echo reassembled her thoughts.
But peace never lasts long.
