Reading Time: 24 minutesIn the crumbling shadow of the Black Circle’s regime, devotion had replaced competence, and ruin was inevitable. Cora watches helplessly as ministries led by sycophants, frauds, and addicts dismantle a once-great nation—not through war or disaster, but through loyalty to lies.
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Reading Time: 13 minutes The Circle had replaced education with indoctrination, molding children into obedient servants while their parents, exhausted and compliant, looked on. The older generation—the faithful voting bloc—had long since dismissed any concerns. Their own children had grown up in a different time, so why should they care? Schools, social programs, the greater good—it was all “socialist nonsense” unless it served the Black Circle. And now, the next generation didn’t even know they were enslaved.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesCora sat motionless on the cold floor, the glow of her dying phone screen casting hollow shadows on her face. Around her, the walls were lined with propaganda—slogans of obedience, the Chairman’s ever-smiling portrait, the promise of a future that would never come.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesMagnus Vail had never been a builder. He had never invented, never pioneered, never created. He took, reshaped, and erased those who had done the work before him. He bought his way into success, rewrote history to place himself at the center of it, and convinced the world he was a genius. His empire was built on deception, his wealth a product of manipulation. And yet, by the time he stood at the right hand of the Chairman, it no longer mattered how he got there.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesCora wasn’t supposed to be out this late. She had no choice. The ration system had failed again, leaving her stranded, forced to barter for food. Now, the streets were empty, the curfew sirens long faded, and the checkpoint stood between her and safety.
