ARCANA STRAIN
CHAPTER ONE: "NAYA ELLION"
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Ten years ago, humanity prayed for a miracle.
They wanted immortality.
Something answered.
Mysterious meteors fell from the sky, devastating the world and releasing a strange infection known as the Arcana Strain. Animals became feral beasts, humans began to change, and civilization was never the same again.
As humanity struggled to understand the Strain, the government launched the Human Advancement Initiative—a scientific program created to study the infection and find a way to control it.
But their experiments only made things worse.
Now, Naya Ellion records the history of the disaster in her diary. Yet behind her words lies a much more personal story.
Ten years ago, a boy named Kael dreamed of finding a cure for the Arcana Strain. Nobody believed him. Even Naya laughed at his dream.
Then Kael disappeared.
For ten years, Naya has carried the weight of that day—and continued the search for the cure Kael once believed in.
Because sometimes, carrying someone's dream is the only way to make up for letting them go.
This is where the story begins.
