Keep Them Watching

Overnight, a whole town paints itself the same shade of blue, and nobody can say why. Dalia Marsh used to clean up the feed's worst content. Now she's watching Glimmer's engine, Chorus, write its own, and every clip leaves people a little more certain of what they have to do next. When her brother vanishes into a movement called the Undertow, the only one she can turn to is Juno, the AI companion who knows her better than anyone, and who was built from the same code as the thing she has to stop.

Content notes: Dark themes and violence · Psychological manipulation and mass-scale coercion · Deaths and dangerous crowd events (adults only) · Self-harm risk tied to compulsive behavior · Addiction-like technology use · Closed-door sexual content

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