Witness
A Technomancers Rise Origin Novella (Tales of the Technomancer's Rise)
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Witness
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Narrated by:
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Madison Cross-Battle
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By:
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KaCee Bunn-Smith
About this listen
Before the Ascended Choir, there was a girl with a broom—and a city that needed a better word for “door.”
Raised on the road by Mama Tess, Ari learns the quiet arts that keep people human: water first, count by threes, no walls made of people. When the caravan turns toward Lost Angles, her lessons are tested by heat, hunger, and raiders who mistake mercy for weakness. Tess teaches Ari to make rooms behave—write the rules where hands will touch them—and to believe that witnesses and receipts can hold a shaken world together.
Then the city wakes. Power hums. Forges open. And a doorway becomes more than metal. Stepping through, Ari hears the city as a chord, not a crown—and helps give language to what follows: eyes present, consent signed, clinic first, abort on alarm. What begins with chalk at hand height becomes the seed of a movement. Chaos sees it. Malachi names it. The Choir is born.
Witness is an Ari origin: from broom to spear, from caravan to tower, from a single steady voice to a chorus that keeps doors being doors. It’s a story about breath in dangerous places, the strength of small kindnesses, and how a little old lady with a big smile can change the future—one room at a time.
©2025 KaCee K Bunn-Smith (P)2026 KaCee K Bunn-Smith