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Particles of the Past — Chapter 7: Custody of the Self

A solitary silhouetted figure stands at the center of a large circular chamber, illuminated by narrow beams of light descending from above.

1950 FC (≈ 2025 CE) Zael ran until the alarms became part of the undercity’s ambient hum. The tunnels changed beneath his feet — from service corridors to older arteries, stone giving way to brick, brick to carved channels whose craftsmanship belonged to hands that had never imagined Fluxian harmonics. The air grew warmer and more stale, threaded with faint …

Particles of the Past — Chapter 6: The Undercity Does Not Forget

A lone silhouetted figure stands within a vast subterranean chamber of stone platforms and flowing water, illuminated by sparse overhead lights.

1950 FC (≈ 2025 CE) Liora had stayed behind. Someone had to remain visible long enough to slow the inevitable. The passage narrowed quickly. Zael ran with one hand skimming the stone wall, letting the roughness orient him in the dark. The air was colder here, heavier with moisture and old metal. Behind him, the vault door’s alarm faded into …

Particles of the Past — Chapter 5: Sediment of the Self

Black-and-white illustration of a vast, circular modern chamber with tiered balconies and a single shaft of light descending from above into an empty central space.

1950 FC (≈ 2025 CE) The oldest part of Luminara wasn’t marked by age so much as by refusal. Above, the city evolved without nostalgia — glass, bio-ceramic, light, and adaptive stone. Below, under the places tourists still photographed and scholars still invoked, the foundations remained stubbornly literal. Not relics. Not monuments. Substructure. Zael followed Dr. Liora Lytton through a narrow passage …

Particles of the Past — Chapter 2: The Waves of Time

Black-and-white illustration of a robed figure resembling a Greco-Roman philosopher or goddess standing before a futuristic city across a reflective sea, symbolizing the transformation from ancient Byzantium to Luminara.

Fluxian time is reckoned, not inherited. The Fluxian Calendar (FC) emerged from Thesean paradox studies inspired by Plutarch and later formalized in Athens by Theon of Athens. This reckoning underpins Fluxian ethics, politics, and even cognition — a frame of time meant to shape how identity is understood and enacted. Year 0 FC aligns approximately with 75 CE, the era …

Particles of the Past — Chapter 1: The Awakening

Black-and-white image of Luminara at dawn, a futuristic city emerging from mist, symbolizing Zael’s awakening and the dawn of continuity.

Dreams of Continuity “Continuity is not what binds us; relation is.” — Neo-Thesean Proverb 1950 FC (Fluxian Calendar) – 2025 CE (Common Era) The sun had not yet crept over the horizon, but the world was already awash in a pale, silvery light. Zael stirred, the echoes of a dream clinging to him—an unfamiliar sensation in his Fluxian existence. In …