Forsaken Lands, The

di Leonor Vasconcelos Seraf (Autore)

Celestial Publishing, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The morning sun cast long shadows across the wasteland that had once been the fertile valley of Esperança. Maria Santos adjusted the cloth wrapped around her face, filtering out the fine dust that perpetually hung in the air like a shroud of forgotten dreams. Her weathered boots crunched softly on the crystalline sand that had replaced the rich soil her grandmother once described in whispered bedtime stories. Twenty-three years had passed since the Great Silence, though Maria had been only seven when the world changed forever. The memories of green fields and singing birds felt like fragments of someone else's life, stories passed down rather than lived experiences. Yet here she stood, one of the few who remembered the before times, tasked with documenting what remained for those who would come after. The Forsaken Lands stretched endlessly in every direction, a testament to humanity's final gamble with forces beyond their comprehension. The scientists had called it the Resonance Project, a revolutionary attempt to harness quantum fields for unlimited energy. Instead, they had torn holes in reality itself, allowing something ancient and malevolent to seep through the cracks between worlds. Maria's leather satchel contained the tools of her trade: a battered notebook with hand-made paper, charcoal pencils crafted from the bones of long-dead trees, and a small collection of glass vials for soil samples. As the last trained cartographer in the known settlements, she bore the responsibility of mapping the ever-changing landscape of their broken world. The silence here was absolute, broken only by the whisper of wind through the skeletal remains of what had once been a thriving forest. No insects buzzed, no birds sang, no small creatures rustled through nonexistent undergrowth. The very air seemed to absorb sound, as if the world itself had learned to hold its breath.

• Autore: Leonor Vasconcelos Seraf
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 00:49:24
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Celestial Publishing
• EAN: 9798318370564

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