In SerialShadow under Plato Sci-fi Drama School Life Slice of Life Psychological
King’s College has a reputation.
To Leo, the sharp but cynical rebel, it is a place where the people he cares about are sentenced to a fate worse than death—to live the rest of their days on the surface of a dying Earth.
To Morgan, the bright and strict overachiever, it is a vault in which she may find her dreams. And for the brightest six students of King’s College, even greater opportunities reside in the legendary Class Euripides; a class which she will fight for a seat at with all her wits and will.
And to Lumia, the newly Ascended girl whose smile never fades, King’s College is a terrifying puzzle just like everything else in the floating city of Plato, the last bastion of humanity.
As the class of 311 commences a grueling year of study and elaborately devious tests, none of the bright-eyed students could have anticipated the weight of expectation laid upon their shoulders. After all, a student’s hopes and dreams mean little in the fight against an ever-collapsing climate.
For the Educators of King’s College offer only one lesson to their future students, to the future of a dying world:
Burn bright.
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Chapter Selections
1. Chapter 01 - Belief is an all-consuming beast whose maw engulfs the light
2. Chapter 02 - It sucks you in with your million brethren, and then the jaws snap shut
3. Chapter 03 - First the darkness swaddles you, then constricts you, and you panic
4. Chapter 04 - You try to flee; there is nowhere to run but around, inside
5. Chapter 05 - Teeth, the cell door bars; fear, the walls unyielding
6. Chapter 06 - Every step along the cold stone floor reveals cold stone
7. Chapter 07 - Then you see the light. It's just before you, always just before you
8. Chapter 08 - In your hand there is a torch; the light you seek is just before you
9. Chapter 09 - False light. Artificial hope. Burning bright. Cold stone.
10. Chapter 10 - Darkness.
11. Chapter 11 - A lonely embrace sends the senses awry
12. Chapter 12 - A staircase to nowhere makes a precarious bed
13. Chapter 13 - Then you hear a whisper
14. Chapter 14 - Listen closely. Shut your eyes. Don't let in the light.
15. Chapter 15 - Within every whisper is an echo of truth
16. Chapter 16 - Follow my voice, I’m waiting at the fall
17. Chapter 17 - A noose around your neck keeps you from slipping off the edge
18. Chapter 18 - The need to breathe gives me a chance to speak
19. Chapter 19 - The need to move keeps you running from the uncomfortable truth
20. Chapter 20 - The need to eat wrests the body from the soul
21. Chapter 21 - Always, you come back to my voice
22. Chapter 22 - Always, you find yourself at the fall
23. Chapter 23 - Your fingers plug your ears and you dream I’m just a dream
24. Chapter 24 - I light the fires at your back, you slowly walk towards me
25. Chapter 25 - Fear keeps your heart from taking what it needs
26. Chapter 26 - The world must burn before the sprouts can come anew
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