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Princess Aurelia of the Sunstone Kingdom is more comfortable with a wrench than a wand, and happier sketching blueprints than practicing her curtsy. But when a mysterious gloom begins to settle over her home, stealing the very color from the world, she faces a problem no invention can fix. The crimson of the castle banners fades to a dreary grey, the joyful laughter of the villagers turns to silence, and the sparkling sapphire river runs like mud. While the King and his knights scratch their heads and wait for a hero to appear, Aurelia knows that waiting is not an option.

In 2055, Lina Grahame was diagnosed with cancer. An experimental brain scan was meant to give her family peace of mind—insurance against the unknown. But when the system misfiled her consciousness, Lina was left dormant, forgotten, and reclassified as “simulation-grade.” Four centuries later, she wakes, not as the woman she was, but as a synthetic echo: fleshless, mislabeled, unacknowledged. The cities she wanders are alive with drones and faceless machines, but empty of people. The humans she longs for are gone—not extinguished, but voluntarily replaced.