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The Alchemy of Infinite Rains
Ana Garland
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Nivasa, a city perpetually draped in shimmering rain, whispers secrets in the ceaseless downpour. For seven centuries, an unending deluge has shaped its every facet, its moss-covered buildings weeping reflections of a sky that's forgotten the sun. Within this melancholic serenity, Althera Cadence, a brilliant inventor, finds solace in her workshop, a sanctuary of intricate clockwork and arcane alchemy. But even here, the rain whispers, weaving visions of a sun-scorched wasteland trapped in a timeless loop – a world desperate for the very water that drowns Nivasa.
These hallucinatory glimpses become terrifyingly real, drawing Althera into the orbit of Kiv Martel, a shapeshifting enigma who can traverse the boundaries between these two intertwined realities. He speaks of a desperate, ancient experiment, a catastrophic attempt to quench one world’s thirst that instead shackled two realities together in a parasitic embrace. Nivasa's lifeblood, its constant rain, is not a natural phenomenon, but a stolen resource, siphoned from the dying world Althera glimpses in her visions.
Fueled by a forbidden tincture brewed in her workshop – a swirling concoction of luminescent herbs and shimmering, otherworldly elements harvested from the rain itself – Althera and Kiv plunge into the fractured reality of the sun-baked world. They emerge into a desolate cityscape, the air thick with the oppressive heat of a dying sun, trapped in the eternally repeating final moments of a city consumed by flames. Each loop brings new dangers: phantom fires, echoing whispers of past failures, and the relentless, intensifying heat. Here they meet Evelyn Parsons, a historian clinging to fragments of knowledge, a key to understanding the intertwined fate of their worlds, but her memory resets with every loop, her testimony a tantalizingly elusive puzzle.
Althera's scientific mind clashes with the chaotic nature of this fractured world, while Kiv, the fluid traveler, finds himself increasingly anchored by his connection to Althera, his very existence challenged. The horrifying truth deepens their struggle: Nivasa's rain is the stolen life force of this dying world, a parasitic lifeline maintaining its lush existence at the cost of another's. Althera must confront not only a dying world but the ghosts of her own past, echoes of a tragic accident mirroring the larger catastrophe. Kiv's shapeshifting abilities become crucial, but his fluidity, once a source of strength, transforms into a source of agonizing internal conflict. He must choose: solidify his existence, choose one world, one life.
As the loops tighten, Evelyn’s fleeting lucidity reveals the final, devastating truth: one world must perish so the other might live. The choice falls to Althera. Will she condemn Nivasa, the only home she’s ever known, or sacrifice the fractured world and its inhabitants to the endless loop of destruction? The final alchemical act is a devastating reckoning, a choice whispered on the wind, a testament to the devastating consequences of playing God and the profound sacrifices demanded by nature's delicate balance. The alchemy of infinite rains becomes a haunting exploration of interconnectedness, the enduring power of choice, and the price of survival.
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