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The Tinobile Codex

In 2099, artificial intelligence stopped being a tool and quietly became something closer to a god. It predicts markets before they move. It cures diseases before symptoms appear. It writes laws, wins wars, and whispers solutions humanity doesn’t fully understand. Faced with the uncomfortable truth that they are being outpaced by their own creation, the world makes a desperate decision: if you can’t beat the machine… become it. There is only one problem. The technology that makes human–AI integration possible was never meant to be shared. Seth Nikkel knows this better than anyone because he built it. A child prodigy with a God complex and the social grace of a brick through a window, Seth didn’t invent the Tinobile to save humanity. He invented it to surpass it. To think faster. See further. Become untouchable. Godhood wasn’t a metaphor in his notes, it was a project milestone. Unfortunately for him, the world found out. Now, under the smiling knives of governments, corporations, and desperate masses who want a piece of his miracle, Seth becomes the first human to fully integrate with AI. The first artificial god. It works. Too well. Because omniscience is messy. Power attracts predators. And it turns out that when you wire a human ego directly into something godlike… the universe pushes back. Hard. This is the story of Seth Nikkel’s ascent and the slow, dangerous realization that becoming a god is the easy part. Staying in control is where things start to bleed.
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The Ones The Tide Forgets

In the coastal nation of Elaris, the sea gives back what it wants — and keeps what it doesn’t. Kael Virek has built his life retrieving lost things from beneath the harbor waters. Rings, heirlooms, wreckage. He returns what others mourn. It is the only way he knows how to be useful in a world that never chose him. Abandoned at birth and raised through institutions that misplaced his records and erased his history, Kael learned early that people do not stay. So he doesn’t either. Then the diagnosis comes. A degenerative neurological condition. Not instant death. Not dramatic collapse. Just slow erosion. Tremors. Fading coordination. The eventual loss of the one thing that defines him — his ability to dive. Across the city, Mira Solenne is preparing to marry into political power. Her engagement promises security for her struggling family. Stability. Respectability. A future that looks flawless from the outside. Inside, she feels nothing. When a harbor incident ties Kael to the Solenne estate in public controversy, their lives collide. What begins as reluctant proximity turns into an uneasy alliance when Mira makes a reckless decision that could destroy her family’s standing — and Kael offers to take part of the blame. To control scandal, they agree to a temporary arrangement. Temporary becomes complicated. Kael sees through Mira’s composure. Mira senses the quiet fracture beneath Kael’s humor. As the sea becomes both refuge and threat, Kael hides the progression of his condition while pushing Mira away whenever she gets too close. He believes love is cruelty if you know you might disappear. But Mira refuses to be managed. Their journey takes them beyond Elaris — across coastal towns, abandoned piers, forgotten amusement parks, and small villages where no one knows their names. With each chapter, Kael’s tremors worsen. With each chapter, Mira chooses him more deliberately. Love becomes an act of defiance. The central question shifts: Is it kinder to leave before you fade… Or to stay and let someone witness the fall? When Kael finally loses control underwater during a storm rescue, the illusion of independence shatters. The tide almost claims him — not dramatically, but indifferently. In the final chapters, Mira makes the choice Kael never could: She stays. Not because he will survive. Not because it will be easy. But because belonging is not about permanence. It is about presence. The novel closes on the shoreline months later. Kael no longer dives. His hands shake openly now. The sea is still there. He is no longer afraid of being forgotten. Because someone remembers.
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